Now I see people are talking about what if this was applied to cars but there is a more underlying point here.
WHO OWNS THE ITEM IN QUESTION!
If I buy a car then is it me or the car company that owns it. now this may sound like a silly question that even a kid could answer it is that I own the car not the company. So as such they have no right what so ever to stop you for doing what ever you like with your car. Any infringement on this is a infringement on your owner ship of the item and this is what we should put in there face.
They should not be able to say you cannot open the bonnet on your own car it is your bonnet after all. So if the car needs maintenance then that person has the right to do ever he sees fit to do once given consent by the own me I.
This may be a over simplification of the area but I dont understand way anyone what accept or allow any one to dictate more complex conditions that this.
Remember it is your car you can do anything you like to it!
If the radiation in space is a big problem when travelling throught space and it is not on earth then we should be looking at what protects us here. Now I saw some other else say that the magnetic field around the earth helps protect use for radiation. If this is correct then would it not be possible to generate a magnetic field around the space ship which is large enough to have a similare affect as the earth version?
this maybe a stupid question but even if the megnetic field only helped a little it may reduce the amount of shielding that maybe needed!
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Now I see people are talking about what if this was applied to cars but there is a more underlying point here. WHO OWNS THE ITEM IN QUESTION! If I buy a car then is it me or the car company that owns it. now this may sound like a silly question that even a kid could answer it is that I own the car not the company. So as such they have no right what so ever to stop you for doing what ever you like with your car. Any infringement on this is a infringement on your owner ship of the item and this is what we should put in there face. They should not be able to say you cannot open the bonnet on your own car it is your bonnet after all. So if the car needs maintenance then that person has the right to do ever he sees fit to do once given consent by the own me I. This may be a over simplification of the area but I dont understand way anyone what accept or allow any one to dictate more complex conditions that this. Remember it is your car you can do anything you like to it!
If the radiation in space is a big problem when travelling throught space and it is not on earth then we should be looking at what protects us here. Now I saw some other else say that the magnetic field around the earth helps protect use for radiation. If this is correct then would it not be possible to generate a magnetic field around the space ship which is large enough to have a similare affect as the earth version? this maybe a stupid question but even if the megnetic field only helped a little it may reduce the amount of shielding that maybe needed!