In article ,
Sjouke Burry wrote:
There was a design for interstellar traffic, using a big protection plate
behind the spacepod, using a spring loaded tube to connect them,and
provide a bit of distance between ship and plate.
Explode nuclear bombs behind that shield.
Current technology could implement it, but it would be kind of expensive.

And that's just for the paper to print out the
environmental impact statement!
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