How to Block Radiation Damage in Space

Just because we can build bigger does not mean that we should. If a tiny self apcaing pod gets the job done, it is presumably no harder to build a hundred more of them than one a hundred times bigger. There are reasons why you can't throw something tiny up to ultra relativistic speeds expected to survive the trip with its data intact. Radiation blocking is principaly about mass and density and thickness. And things containing dense data, like frozen ambios or ultra minterized computer memory, tend to be the things most vulnerable to radiation damage.

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