We'll need to find innovative new ways of shielding spacecraft from fraction-of-lightspeed interstellar rubbish if we're ever to spend much time outside our own magnetosphere...
I think you meant LARGE fraction of lightspeed interstellar rubbish. The spitballs my cubicle mate hurls at me are fraction-of-lightspeed rubbish. A very small fraction of lightspeed. Shielding requirements are minimal.
How, though, will we protect ourselves from the terrible secret of space?
Hollywood basically can't think in any other terms than formulaically...
In a way, I can't blame them. If you're investing hundreds of millions, you're liable to be pretty risk averse. You're going to stick to what you know. You're not going to green-light a pitch that begins "..this is nothing like anyone has ever seen before..."
You'll go with "...think TITANIC, only on a space-ship, and we've got Sandra Bullock and Tommy Lee Jones."
This mindset has an ALMOST total lock on Hollywood. From time to time there ARE new & creative works produced. We should be thankful when they happen, I guess.
"Those that survived developed an immunity to AIDS and its variants. "...Uh, IANA genetecist, but I THINK the way it works is that those that ALREADY had the peculiar genetic combination that would equip them to survive SIV where the ones that SURVIVED. Through their offspring this combination came to prevail in the population today...
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I think you meant LARGE fraction of lightspeed interstellar rubbish. The spitballs my cubicle mate hurls at me are fraction-of-lightspeed rubbish. A very small fraction of lightspeed. Shielding requirements are minimal.
How, though, will we protect ourselves from the terrible secret of space?
Hollywood basically can't think in any other terms than formulaically... In a way, I can't blame them. If you're investing hundreds of millions, you're liable to be pretty risk averse. You're going to stick to what you know. You're not going to green-light a pitch that begins "..this is nothing like anyone has ever seen before..." You'll go with "...think TITANIC, only on a space-ship, and we've got Sandra Bullock and Tommy Lee Jones." This mindset has an ALMOST total lock on Hollywood. From time to time there ARE new & creative works produced. We should be thankful when they happen, I guess.
"Those that survived developed an immunity to AIDS and its variants. " ...Uh, IANA genetecist, but I THINK the way it works is that those that ALREADY had the peculiar genetic combination that would equip them to survive SIV where the ones that SURVIVED. Through their offspring this combination came to prevail in the population today...
...thought they were talking about the bit of stuff that's always left over after you eat the last sardine in the tin.