Highly worrying news here in the Spaceship, as it turns out that according to the New Scientist, my travelling at warp speed is not good for the health. Basically, bashing into hydrogen atoms at the speed of light is like an ultra high dose radiation beam. Even cardboard will not stop it, I suppose, nor my tin foil hat.
"The fatal dose of radiation for a human is 6 sieverts. Edelstein's calculations show that the crew would receive a radiation dose of more than 10,000 sieverts within a second. Intense radiation would also weaken the structure of the spacecraft and damage its electronic instruments.
Edelstein speculates this might be one reason why extraterrestrial civilisations haven't paid us a visit. Even if ET has mastered building a rocket that can travel at the speed of light, he may be lying dead inside a weakened craft whose navigation systems have short-circuited."
Poor old ET.
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