Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by indoordin0saur on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:34PM (#40601454)

On that, if you orient the ship so that the rear is pointed directly at the sun (trivial to do once you're coasting) you'll have a hundred feet of liquid fuel and other solid material which will block the primary source of radiation (the sun).

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by matthewpick on Thursday June 06, 2024 @04:10PM (#40601822)

I too, read Project Hail Mary (great book btw).

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by backwardsmoo on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:43PM (#40602738)

I was always led to believe that the primary source of radiation we need to worry about for space travel was Cosmic Radiation [1]. The shielding requirements for CR relative to solar radiation requires much more material, to protect from rays from every angle. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/missions/analog-field-testing/why-space...

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