Re: [TML] 1G ship vs Size 8 world. shadow@xxxxxx 17 Oct 2017 11:10 UTC

On 14 Oct 2017 at 17:57, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:

>> I recall the time (probably 1989 or so because the 1989
>> supernova played a part) we figured out that if the drive used
>> neutrinos as the "exhaust" then you'd get a lethal dose of
>> neutrinos at something like 100 meters behind a Type-s scout.

> Lethal dose of *neutrinos*?  Whoa! That's heavy!

Yeah, it was imnspired by a calculation somewhere that notede that
you'd have gotten a lerhal dose of neutrinos from the supernova if
you were as far away as Jupiter is from the Sun.

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