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General Science / Re: Ways of Evading Radiation
« on: 01/06/2012 00:25:19 »
Wow. Thanks so much for all the help! The answers have been really helpful.
Now, this is science fiction, and the great thing about that is I can bend the rules as I need to! My idea was that everybody would be living in these airtight houses, some underground, some made out of old building ruins. They would contain radiation shower zones, two seperate doors, metal walls and ventilation systems.
The thing about the ruins is that the people living there are outcasts. They have some reason not to live with normal society. The book is about robots and cyborgs, and in that society, any electronic being is hated. So a lot of the inhabitants of the ruins are either robots, or robotocists, or cyborgs. Another question I had was would the radiation have an effect on robots and cyborgs? I saw another post on the forum related to this subject and it seems the whole radiation thing isn't going to be a huge problem.
It being science fiction, and in the future, I thought that there could be this special anti-radiation fabric. Like the fabric is so strong and tightly wound, it's able to keep radiation out. But it would be expensive and hard to get, so only some could use it. How long would it be, do you think, before exposure to the radiation outside would begin to have effects, for someone who went outside every other day or so?
I have high hopes for this book, thanks again for all the help!
Now, this is science fiction, and the great thing about that is I can bend the rules as I need to! My idea was that everybody would be living in these airtight houses, some underground, some made out of old building ruins. They would contain radiation shower zones, two seperate doors, metal walls and ventilation systems.
The thing about the ruins is that the people living there are outcasts. They have some reason not to live with normal society. The book is about robots and cyborgs, and in that society, any electronic being is hated. So a lot of the inhabitants of the ruins are either robots, or robotocists, or cyborgs. Another question I had was would the radiation have an effect on robots and cyborgs? I saw another post on the forum related to this subject and it seems the whole radiation thing isn't going to be a huge problem.
It being science fiction, and in the future, I thought that there could be this special anti-radiation fabric. Like the fabric is so strong and tightly wound, it's able to keep radiation out. But it would be expensive and hard to get, so only some could use it. How long would it be, do you think, before exposure to the radiation outside would begin to have effects, for someone who went outside every other day or so?
I have high hopes for this book, thanks again for all the help!