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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?

[–] Feathercrown 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me travelling calmly through space when a rogue wave of high energy radiation blasts me from some rando warping 2974738 years ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.

[–] Feathercrown 1 points 16 hours ago

Hmm, I think you're right