On 10/17/2017 7:10 AM,  (via tml list) wrote:
> 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.
>
>

	I've seen calculations that put the lethal radius at 5AU. Except stars that are
big enough to go supernova are also huge. As in 5AU in radius. So the lethal
neutrino pulse extends to the surface of the star.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/

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