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Old 12-01-2020, 08:52 PM   #8
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Magnetic Shielding above TL8

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Originally Posted by Anthony View Post
If you aren't going to high relativistic speeds it will also make further shielding unnecessary.
I've made a rough graph (based on a related graph I found, with very high error-bars, and which may be totally wrong) of how many rem per second have to be dealt with at various speeds:
0.5c: 172,776
0.4c: 18,394
0.3c: 1,958
0.2c: 208
0.1c: 22
0.05c: 7.2
0.02c: 3.7
0.01c: 3.0

Even just 3 rem per second builds up to 95B rem per millennium-long voyage; bringing it down to a more reasonable number would be rather reassuring, and keep those fault-tolerant chips from having to tolerate quite so many faults.


Given that PFs can multiply, I'm now thinking about stacking 5 75-rPF field-projectors in series, which would reduce that 95B dose down to a rather tame 40...
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