Reply #6: Asimov came up with realistic answers two decades ago, when he [View All]

[ChairmanAgnostic]

described this very problem.

A two fold approach, first, store all your water around the hull. It provides both insulation and protection, then polarize the hull at all times, which would deflect another 30-40% of the particles, even at low voltage. The big problem he worried about was solar flare activity, which would overwhelm pretty much everything we can throw at it.

To give you an idea of how powerful a solar flare can be, solar flares have to punch through a HUGE FUCKING MOLTEN BALL OF IRON which rotates and thereby creates an extremely powerful magnetic field. That field is so powerful, that we can bounce radio waves of certain frequency off the field. (that is why short wave signals can go much further than the horizon) But, even with a HUGE FUCKING MOLTEN BALL's magnetic field, solar flares are even more powerful, powerful enough to scramble our electrical grid, fry computers, kill even hardened satellites, and destroy transformers, etc.