Effects of an EMP-producing spacedrive

James W. said:

::: would a massive EMP burst have an effect on human
::: physiology?

Mike W. said:

:: EMP causes damage by inducing strong transient currents
:: in conductors.

:: Devices most at risk are those that are connected to
:: long conductors (e.g. communications wires and antennas)
:: which contain components that are susceptible to damage by
:: current spikes. Devices can be hardened against EMP either
:: by use of shielding (e.g. a Faraday cage, and optical
:: isolation of the sensitive electronics from the antennas
:: or comms wires) or by replacing vulnerable components with
:: components which are less susceptible to current spikes

The source of EM noise can be degaussed using Helmholtz coils
to 'white noise envelope' the source, rather than the wide-
spread environment. There would be almost no need to provide
any other type of shielding - as long as the appropriate
phase conjugated EM coil filters were positioned appropriately
as well as being tuned electrogravitically.

Humans themselves act as the antennas - there are particular
resonances of human DNA that are very much succeptable to
wide EM bandwidths, especially due to local field proximity
or long range, airborn HF resonance.

boomert said:

: Thank you, Mike Williams.

: Keeping in mind how actual electrodynamics works, let's
: address John W.

: The EMP of the drive does not harm the drive, and there
: are many great ways this can be acheived. Same with the
: rest of the ship. Everything in the ship can be shielded,
: caged, grounded, redundant, and what have you, and a system
: similar to venting radiators absorbing the destructive
: charge can be included on all FTL ships. Shielded devices
: would become common and EMP shielding would be a common
: design feature of all spaceships.

: As for the reaction of socio-politics to the drive,
: regulations. Always regulation. The most important one
: being to always have the ship a safe distance from population
: centers and other ships before activating FTL. If it is
: cheap enough where every ship can have FTL, then the red
: tape will be immense when dealing with larger populations,

Environmental bullcrap. Every homophobic sociopath wants
to lie, rob, and steal the technology, and then discredit
the original founder for their own profit - hence we have
large populations of the technologically 'unsaved', because
that is the way the 'metered' establishment would like it
to be - you've got to pay some freaking political propaganda
con artist their own Fabian socialist spin time in order
to market your own ideas, which are most likely, outside
their own version of 'status quo'.

: since they have more people to protect and bigger
: bureaucracy to chuck it's weight at people. This becomes
: less severe farther out in the fields, where travel is
: needed more and there are less people to run over. One can
: imagine a highly blockaded Earth and Pals, demanding all
: kinds of clearance and fees just to park near Saturn. But
: there is a much more easygoing and carefree Proxima, that
: just demand you keep to a safe 10000km distance from each
: body or face charges.

Carbon coated rhenium is a room temperature metal
superconductor that is able to enhance gene expression
100,000 times during cell division. Thus an FTL passenger
using a metallic-type foil suit can establish phase coherency
when surrounded by a scaled-up version of carbon-coated
rhenium, for degaussing whatever 'human superconductivity'
that might be generated during hypertranslation.

Rhenium is a rare, dense, silvery white metallic element
with a very high melting point (3180 degrees, centigrade),
higher than molybdenum, but only under that of diamond
(3550 C) and tungsten (3410 C). Carbon coated rhenium foil
makes for a good degaussing mechanism because good wear
and arc corrosion resistance are degaussing properties
that need to be addressed for this type of protection.

Although the seething aether may permit this type of pro-
tection to be most effective for space travel, it would
seem that the vehicle might carry along with it the biological
EM signature of its occupants radiated out into space - sort
of like a beacon or homing device for some species of
extraterrestrial, that might wish to displace this sort
of 'human biological entity'.

Ergo, invisibility shields, like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking_device

"When philosophy paints its grey on grey, then has a
shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey on grey
it cannot be rejuvinated but only understood. The owl
of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of
the dusk."

- Philosophy of Right, 1821, tr. T. M. Knox, p. 13