{"id":421,"date":"2005-09-08T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=421"},"modified":"2005-09-08T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T16:56:20","slug":"quote-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Savard, writing about space colony design in <a href=\"news:sci.space.history\">sci.space.history<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, going over documents about space colonies, it is clear that because of cosmic rays, it is not possible, without using _very_ thick shielding, to reduce radiation to an *arbitrarily low level*. A little shielding cuts radiation exposure, but after a certain amount, secondary radiation from cosmic rays increases exposure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In that area, it is *not* possible to achieve a level of shielding which reduces radiation exposure within the habitat to that found on Earth at sea level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, Denver, Colorado is not exactly overrun by mutants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Savard, writing about space colony design in sci.space.history: However, going over documents about space colonies, it is clear that because of cosmic rays, it is not possible, without using _very_ thick shielding, to reduce radiation to an *arbitrarily low level*. A little shielding cuts radiation exposure, but after a certain amount, secondary radiation from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote of the Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}