Re: Colonizing a Neutron Star

On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:47:03 GMT, "Logan Kearsley"
<chrono.surfer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trouble is, you have to prevent the strong magnetic field and nasty
radiation from killing whatever is inside the habitat or screwing with their
electronics. Radiation shielding I figure can be taken care of by suitable
amounts of water and/or deflecting magnetic fields, but the
potentially-enormous magnetic field of the neutron star which is providing
all of your electrical power is another matter. Cover the whole thing in
superconductors, maybe, to exclude magnetic fields?

Why do they want to colonize the vicinity of a neutron star, given
that it is about as inhospitable a place as can be?

Perhaps they are doing something that requires a great deal of energy,
such as mass producing anti matter, or doing high energy physics with
*really* high energies.

It seems unlikely that superconductors could exclude the magnetic
field when it gets really strong, so that probably limits how close
you can get.


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