Is it possible for a planet oddly similar to the ones we have orbiting our sun to make a shield to protect an interstellar space ship?
The situation is bad, human kind have waited to the last minute (literally) with building the huge ship that is supposed to save man kind. The sun goes nova, nothing can stop that but the ship has to survive the shock wave.
So the idea is the following: if something blows up you hide in the bathtub, behind a stone or anything else that can shield the blast.
But since this is a ship holding millions of people and DNA for producing flora and fauna (think Titan AE) one would need a fairly large rock. Lucky for us we got 10 available in our solar system.
The question: is there a planet, similar to the ones in our solar system strong / dense / large enough to provide a shield for long enough to enter the subspace.
- Ship is estimated 3 km^3
- To achieve subspace the ship needs to get to quarter-c and it will take it 1 month to get to that speed.
- Assume the space ship is shielded against dangerous radiations since it has to enter subspace.
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