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Something authors often ignore when writing fiction about Jupiter is the intense radiation there. You often see stories/games about astronauts doing EVA around
by bjelkeman-again 3y ago
Something authors often ignore when writing fiction about Jupiter is the intense radiation there. You often see stories/games about astronauts doing EVA around Jupiter, but it is way more dangerous than the Van Allen Belts around Earth.
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Jupiter_s_radiation_belts_and_how_to_survive_them https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...
- defrost 3y agoFair point - I do a bit of geophysics and look at ground and cosmic radiation so a point appreciated. That said .. there's always some killjoy dragging reality and science into science fiction . . . :-)
- bjelkeman-again 3y agoTrue. I love a good story over anything else. But sometimes it just seems the writers, particularly for TV are just lazy. A few fixes in the script and everything looks a lot better. The Expanse is a good compromise IMHO.