“Star Trek shields will protect man in space.”
From the TimesOnline story:
“It’s no accident that Star Trek featured this sort of technology, as it had advisers who work for Nasa and it’s feasible,” Dr Bamford said. “The shields seem to be some sort of invisible barrier, which energy bounces off, and that sort of deflector shield is exactly what we’re talking about.”
Magnetic field generators, she said, could be critical to Nasa’s plans to establish a permanent manned base on the Moon by 2024, and to send astronauts to Mars around 2030.
“Now there’s the will to send astronauts back into space, we need to be able to do it safely. That means protecting astronauts from radiation.”
(Via The Corner.)
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I wonder if the shields will have “emergency power” too. That stuff is awesome.
That’s about six different kinds of awesome!