Re: Why big ships are too good...

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> 
> Space does; the body of the ship is an entirely different matter.  I
> wouldn't want to be a crewmember on a ship hit by an EMP missile.  Not
> only would the Compton effect from the high-speed gamma cascading
> through the metallic walls of the ship fry the electronics in a /much/
> shorter distance than in an airburst, but my body wouldn't feel too
> cheery after taking a cascade-group of alpha.  Ouch.
> 
Okay, so dusting off my particularly bad memories of astronomy and 
physics....  Folks, radiation from solar flares is going to cause a 
similarly significant amount of radiation to imping on a ship...
wouldn't
this be protected from as a function of advanced environmental 
protection?  

Brennan