From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 14:05:21 MST
bbrown@transcient.com writes:
> easily afford a kilometer or two of shielding. Since even the most energetic
> secondary radiation isn't going to penetrate more than a few hundred meters of
> solid matter, that means that impacting nanoprobes are no threat at all.
I don't know. A relativistic piece of matter is a lot like
radiation. Damn dense radiation. If it's fast enough it may tunnel
through quite deep before it gets down slow enough to unleash its
havoc.
Has anyone modeled this?
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