NASA Studying Energy Shields for Spacecraft

Shafe writes "SPACE.COM posted an article concerning enhanced shielding technologies research for futuristic spacecraft en route to Mars. One particularly interesting goal is essentially an energy shield known as a 'multipole electrostatic shield' that would deflect both radiation and micro-meteoroids. We're one step closer to Star Trek: shields up!"

Comments

Re:No Trees?

[Cecil]

I'm impressed, you managed to use this guy's inoffensive and amusing signature to segue into an unrelated environmentalist tirade.

Congratulations, you're a bleeding heart hippie.

P.S. There are only a few places you can economically get coal from. Telling them to stop this sort of mining is impossible as long as people are buying it. On the other hand, coal-fired powerplants are horrific polluters, and there are numerous other ways to generate electricity, which any respectable power company could switch to. Putting pressure on companies that build coal-fired powerplants is a slightly less irrational solution to this problem. Consider it.

Re:another solution for Mars colonists

[sadler121]

never happen, to meany freakn Christians would balk at the idea of genetic manipulation, (and thats not even mentioning the "right to life" bull that would come about because of experimentation with human enbryos) face it, if we want to advance in science we need to get rid of not only Christians but all radical religious sects.