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Billy Brown <ewbrownv@mindspring.com> Wrote:
>If
True.
>If it arrives as visible light it is not nearly as bright as the sun.
True.
>and any space habitat capable of surviving a solar storm will likewise be
>unharmed.
That is very far from obvious.
>If it were all neutrinos an average human would stop a grand total of maybe
>10^-17 % of that flux, which amounts to around 10^-7 electron volts -
>in other words, less than one interaction.
I have no idea what you're talking about. You seem to saying that a human body would not absorb even one neutrino from a nearby supernova, but you can't possibly mean that.
>It doesn't matter what exotic form you want the energy to arrive in,
>because there simply isn't enough of it to do anything.
To repeat myself, energy has little to do with danger, just one X ray photon could kill you if it hits in the right place and in fact that very thing is a major, perhaps the major, cause of the most feared disease of the 20'th century that kills millions of people every year.
>The target civilization will be exposed to much higher levels of
>every type of radiation (including neutrinos) simply by living near
> their own sun.
Once more I must say that you can't possibly mean what you seem to be saying.
>Do I really need to write up a complete treatment of all the calculations here?
Yes, I rather think you do.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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