{"id":12713,"date":"2012-11-07T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2012-11-07T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:00:40","slug":"ultimate-cosmic-space-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12713","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Cosmic Space Mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=23913\">Speed kills: Highly relativistic spaceflight would be fatal for passengers and instruments<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Going slow to avoid severe H irradiation sets an upper speed limit of v ~ 0.5 c. This velocity only gives a time dilation factor of about 15%, which would not substantially assist galaxy-scale voyages. Diffuse interstellar H atoms are the ultimate cosmic space mines and represent a formidable obstacle to interstellar travel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed kills: Highly relativistic spaceflight would be fatal for passengers and instruments Going slow to avoid severe H irradiation sets an upper speed limit of v ~ 0.5 c. This velocity only gives a time dilation factor of about 15%, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}