Galactic Cosmic Radiation/HBN
- laasya.vadrevu
- Sep 19, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 20, 2018
Ok I just wanted to log in to the blog, but I also found some cool facts, these are some of them:
When cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere they collide with atoms and molecules, mainly oxygen and nitrogen
The interaction produces a cascade of lighter particles, a so-called air shower secondary radiation that rains down, including x-rays, muons, protons, alpha particles, pions, electrons, and neutrons
GCRs are atomic nuclei from which all of the surrounding electrons have been stripped away during their high-speed passage through the galaxy
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Check this youtube video on use of BNNT. It appears BNNT fabric does not exist yet so it might be good idea to pursue, other idea is BNNT filter, it can be used to diagnose cancer more efficiently and cancer prevention as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoHSNiZqwEY
Sameera check this out . Virtual reality could be the future of mental health in space. This guy is Engineering graduate from OSU
https://mae.osu.edu/news/2018/09/virtual-reality-could-be-future-mental-health-space
Yeah basically. So the spacesuit idea is out. The problem with coating the spacecraft with BNNT is that it's really expensive ($1000 per gram).
So they also already thought of sewing it into yarn to put it into the spacesuit?
More info on BNNT. This is a student paper but good research material
http://www.pitt.edu/~djm197/ENGR11_WritingAssignment3.pdf
This line caught my attention
"NASA was also successfully able to weave the
BNNTs into yarn. This opens it up to the potential of it
being usable in space suits. If it can be made into yarn
than it could potentially be woven into space suits,
creating a much more portable type of shielding than
just building it into the wall of structure that astronauts
must stay inside of"