Comment Re:And next up... (Score 2, Insightful) 841
He's got three kids. Although he might be a geek, I'd call that evidence he's no longer unicorn-attractant.
He's got three kids. Although he might be a geek, I'd call that evidence he's no longer unicorn-attractant.
I'm also trying to figure out how a solar wind shield (a few keV) would do anything for cosmic ray particles (GeV, anyone?)
I trust the folks at RAL to be doing good work. I think the real news here is in the size of the protected area: magnetic fields deflecting charged particles is hardly new. Their trial is billed as a metre across, whereas the solar wind DeBye length is on the order of 10m. So they're dealing with scales smaller than a typical plasma treatment. I'll have to read the actual article to be sure.
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