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Warp Speed Will Kill You

Captain Kirk might want to avoid taking the starship Enterprise to warp speed, unless he's ready to shrug off interstellar hydrogen atoms that would deliver a lethal radiation blast to both ship and crew.

There are just two hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter on average in space, which poses no threat to spaceships traveling at low speeds. But those same lone atoms would transform into deadly galactic space mines for a spaceship that runs into them at near-light speed, according to calculations based on Einstein's special theory of relativity. ...

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4/10/10 1:21 PM

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"There are just two hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter on average in space, which poses no threat to spaceships traveling at low speeds"

Ah but Captain Kirk would raise his "Deflector Shield" .....

"The idea for a starship shield may not be completely beyond the realm of reality. In 2008, Cosmos Magazine reported research into creating an artificial replica of Earthâ€™s magnetic field around a spacecraft to protect astronauts from dangerous cosmic rays"

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