Actually space is ~130,000 degrees (slightly less, disappointing I know) because it's 3 dimensional, not 2D.
However I was talking about a vehicles design here, and suggesting an engine-in-front design rather than an engine-behind. Like the humble car, an engine-in-front design may protect the driver from nasty impacts, in this case blue-shifted gamma rays and microscopic particles that have been blue-shifted to the point that your ship is in a giant particle collider. If you could hide the crew in a sort of eclipsed position behind (in relation to the direction of momentum) the event horizon would act as a shield. This would mean you only had to harden equipment against radiation, rather than find a way to protect the crew themselves.
IMO though, if you've built a black hole, you might as well be moving something big, as in either a planet, small moon, or giant colony. On these scales the need to travel fast would become redundant, your colony ship could be so big it could literally house a world. Then an organisation like NASA would essentially become a planetary bus-driver association.
> Actually space is ~130,000 degrees (slightly less, disappointing I know) because it's 3 dimensional, not 2D.
That's what I was thinking, but it came out in a 2D manner. How embarrassing. ^^;;
> an engine-in-front design may protect the driver from nasty impacts, in this case blue-shifted gamma rays and microscopic particles that have been blue-shifted to the point that your ship is in a giant particle collider.
Ah, I thought that we were talking about other radiation (solar,background,gamma,etc) in space. In that case, you can't really hide 'behind' something because there isn't necessarily a single source to hide from. Even if only nearby solar radiation was a problem, if you ended up in a binary star system, you would have two sources to 'hide' from.
> IMO though, if you've built a black hole, you might as well be moving something big, as in either a planet, small moon, or giant colony.
I thought that the LHC was supposed to create miniature black holes. Though they're supposed to immediately dissipate, I don't think we've necessarily crossed the boundary of 'able to move whole planets' just because we're able to create a black hole.
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Actually space is ~130,000 degrees (slightly less, disappointing I know) because it's 3 dimensional, not 2D.
However I was talking about a vehicles design here, and suggesting an engine-in-front design rather than an engine-behind. Like the humble car, an engine-in-front design may protect the driver from nasty impacts, in this case blue-shifted gamma rays and microscopic particles that have been blue-shifted to the point that your ship is in a giant particle collider. If you could hide the crew in a sort of eclipsed position behind (in relation to the direction of momentum) the event horizon would act as a shield. This would mean you only had to harden equipment against radiation, rather than find a way to protect the crew themselves.
IMO though, if you've built a black hole, you might as well be moving something big, as in either a planet, small moon, or giant colony. On these scales the need to travel fast would become redundant, your colony ship could be so big it could literally house a world. Then an organisation like NASA would essentially become a planetary bus-driver association.
> Actually space is ~130,000 degrees (slightly less, disappointing I know) because it's 3 dimensional, not 2D.
That's what I was thinking, but it came out in a 2D manner. How embarrassing. ^^;; > an engine-in-front design may protect the driver from nasty impacts, in this case blue-shifted gamma rays and microscopic particles that have been blue-shifted to the point that your ship is in a giant particle collider.
Ah, I thought that we were talking about other radiation (solar,background,gamma,etc) in space. In that case, you can't really hide 'behind' something because there isn't necessarily a single source to hide from. Even if only nearby solar radiation was a problem, if you ended up in a binary star system, you would have two sources to 'hide' from.
> IMO though, if you've built a black hole, you might as well be moving something big, as in either a planet, small moon, or giant colony.
I thought that the LHC was supposed to create miniature black holes. Though they're supposed to immediately dissipate, I don't think we've necessarily crossed the boundary of 'able to move whole planets' just because we're able to create a black hole.