Re: [GZG][FH] Planet types (was Re: Locations of Stars)

At 16:39 30/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, John M. Atkinson wrote:
>> Tony Wilkinson wrote:
>> > 1) Planets without magnetic field.
>
>they cannot be any worse than raw space, and starships seem to do
alright.
>build your mining plant to starship quality levels (shields, perhaps), 
>limit excursions and follow a proactive medical programme, and you're
ok.
>alternatively, go the Kim Stanley Robinson on Mercury route and only 
>colonise the dark side of the planet. this may well involve building a
>moving colony. deal with it.

<SNIP>

	Starships survive one pressumes because the hull is shielded
against
exactly this kind of thing. If on a planet then you need to be
underground
which, according to most visions, will even the case for Mars which is
further away from the Sun than we are. War tends to require lots of
excursions outside. The effects were meant to represent not nessicarily
people getting ill but also people nicking off and finding a nice
shielded
bunker to hide in until dark.
	Remember that one of the most talked about problems with getting
a manned
(peopled to be PC) mission to Mars is radiation during the trip
particularly during sun flare activity.

	Tony.
	twilko@ozemail.com.au