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Space Elevators Could Be Lethal

Posted by kdawson on from the fried-by-van-allen dept.

Maggie McKee writes, "A new study reports that passengers on space elevators of current design could be killed by radiation. Even traveling at 200 kilometers per hour, passengers would spend several days in the Van Allen radiation belts, long enough to kill them." Looks like the elevator scientists will get this one solved before liftoff.

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  1. It's not the radiation that scares me... by brouski · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's that I'll get the short straw when it comes to mutation and be the one whose tissues mutate into an orange, rocky material.

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