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by hardhack.org on Thursday July 09, 2009 @03:32AM (#28633195) Attached to: Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39?

From a young age I loved electronics and ended up in my chosen career of electronics manufacturing by 30. It then evolved into management, and now I'm a CEO of a company nothing to do with electronics. Sadly the now the electronics industry (in Australia) is only a shadow of what it once was and if I stayed in hindsight I don't think my career would have gone so far. More importantly electronics is now something I do for fun, and is far more enjoyable as a hobby then a career.

Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays 199

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @01:06PM from the but-not-against-hyperbole dept.

stiller writes "British scientists from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have developed an experimental set-up in which a $20 magnet is used to deflect solar-wind-like radiation." Reader Dersaidin points out a slightly more enthusiastic article at Universe Today which emphasizes the possibilities of systems based on this phenomenon to protect astronauts during solar storms, writing "It's a good start. Hopefully, later versions will be able to protect spaceships from energy weapons. A beam from the LHC can melt a 500kg block of copper. Shields, check. Energy weapons, check. Now we just need a viable interstellar drive, and an energy source to power it all."

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