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318. Suzie Sheehy — The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

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The Impact of Space Radiation on Biology

If you could shield the spacecraft in something lead water I don't know what that would then pick up most of those cosmic rays and disperse them before they get to human bodies. Yeah, yeah I mean lead water or even a sort of magnetic shielding to bend particles around right as well. And one of the interesting studies that I know people working in including the acceleration mechanisms of of these charged particles is also like if you could understand that maybe you can reverse it and then get rid of these high energy particles if you're to travel in space. It's really difficult to study that especially because of the way that we quite rightly control radiation exposure in our society now that we understand that it can have incredibly

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