Generation ship design project

[Drashner1]

From past discussions, OA presumes (although not all that obviously) that inflight 'shielding' actually consists of multiple cooperating systems (mass, lasers, magnetic fields, plasma, perhaps other things). We should probably make that more explicit.

There is also this page - LINK - that was updated not that long ago and seems to be based on somewhat different conclusions re impacts on a mass shield. Maybe - perhaps the numbers actually line up with what is being mentioned here in the last few posts.

Another reason that we should probably spend some significant attention at some point on updating the shielding article and other pages dealing with interstellar travel.

Todd