11-11-2016, 08:19 AM
Wouldn't the caches have to be protected, too?
Could adequate shielding be produced before the wavefront hits?
Gamma rays are photons and travel at c, so there wouldn't be much, if any, warning that such an event was about to happen if you're depending only on direct observation. When you see that it's blowing up, it's too late: the photons have already arrived.
Presumably substantial predictive capability would be needed to determine where such caches would be needed (i.e. to determine where and when a GRB is going to happen) and they'd have to be implemented well in advance. I'm sure the local modosophonts would strenuously object to their lives being interrupted "unnecessarily". Preventing colonization in threatened regions might or might not be particularly effective. People live on active volcanoes, after all.
Could adequate shielding be produced before the wavefront hits?
Gamma rays are photons and travel at c, so there wouldn't be much, if any, warning that such an event was about to happen if you're depending only on direct observation. When you see that it's blowing up, it's too late: the photons have already arrived.
Presumably substantial predictive capability would be needed to determine where such caches would be needed (i.e. to determine where and when a GRB is going to happen) and they'd have to be implemented well in advance. I'm sure the local modosophonts would strenuously object to their lives being interrupted "unnecessarily". Preventing colonization in threatened regions might or might not be particularly effective. People live on active volcanoes, after all.
Selden