To: Al Simmons
Lead would work very well as radiation sheilding, without a doubt.
Now figure out how to loft enough of it into orbit - that's the issue.
To: steve1848
Considering the amount of mass they would need for a substantial space program, they ought to get the material from bodies already in space. Moon mining, asteroid mining, that kind of thing.
31 posted on
08/01/2005 1:36:35 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
To: steve1848
Lead would work very well as radiation sheilding, without a doubt. Now figure out how to loft enough of it into orbit - that's the issue. Not a problem. For a very reasonable price I can show NASA how to turn gold into lead.
Launch the gold, turn it into lead in orbit, problem solved.
49 posted on
08/01/2005 1:50:27 PM PDT by
upchuck
("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: steve1848
Lead would work very well as radiation sheilding, without a doubt. WHAT? And subject astronauts and unknown space microbes to the dangers of lead? What in the EPA is wrong with you? Sheesh! Just looking at lead will kill you, don't you know ;>)
53 posted on
08/01/2005 1:55:25 PM PDT by
LRS
To: steve1848
Now figure out how to loft enough of it into orbit - that's the issue. Tinfoil hats, "sunglasses", and lead jockstraps for the crew.
Why in the world would you even think of trying to shield the entire ship?
128 posted on
08/01/2005 6:31:54 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(The Marching Morons are coming...and they're breeding beyond all reason!)
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