If I was to design a spaceship to get away from a sun that isn't going to burn out and a politics board that's getting on my nerves, should I really use battleship steel or other heavy pre-1945 metals to shield my hardy crew from radiation in space?
Does this paragraph ring true?
"This problem was solved in the early 1960s by designing a whole-body monitoring system that used thick armour-plated steel from the hull of HMS Howe. The six-inch thick steel blocked out 98 per cent of natural radiation, and because the steel was made before 1945 - and therefore had not been exposed to any radioactive fall-out from nuclear weapons during its manufacture - it is free from radioactive impurities associated with steel made after 1945."
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Does this paragraph ring true?
"This problem was solved in the early 1960s by designing a whole-body monitoring system that used thick armour-plated steel from the hull of HMS Howe. The six-inch thick steel blocked out 98 per cent of natural radiation, and because the steel was made before 1945 - and therefore had not been exposed to any radioactive fall-out from nuclear weapons during its manufacture - it is free from radioactive impurities associated with steel made after 1945."
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I have several telescopes, but none are semi-APO, APO, or in anyway valuable.
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