See, that anecdote makes me more skeptical. "Missions in Laos [or Cambodia] with no records" is a frequent trope for fake combat vets or real vets who are exaggerating their combat records. They lean on it, because few have the background to call them on their stories. It's easy to use it as a crutch and an excuse for missing documentation or lack of corroboration.
The Honor Harrington series says you just forgot to make them "bomb-pumped", then they'll work. Glory to the Kingdom of Manticore. If it's really a classically liberal, benevolent, monarchical, capitalist Utopia, why doesn't everyone just move there? There seem to be many billions of people in the galaxy who absolutely don't want to live there.
I think a blahaj admin just went ahead and confirmed that, yes, they are the ones with the beef, about 14 hours ago, in our VERY OWN PIT OF DESPAIR AND CRUDELY DRAWN FROGS. You saw it here first. 🐸 I'm never going to financially recover from this, the day blahaj banned us.
Build the hypothetical ship in space and you never have to deal with it except as ice, which is easier to move around and shape into what you need.
The ISS has a lot of liquids on board in all sorts of forms, from chicken soup, to ink pens, to the urine inside astronaut bladders. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
They used the ice for everything, including cooling and heating the ship as needed. They got the bad effects from the cosmic radiation pinging in from all other directions, not from using the water. The volume of ice was larger than that of the ship, I think it also absorbed physical damage from micrometeorites. Let's hope someone in the Big Green Machine reads the novel.
They did that in the novel "Seveneves", used a massive chunk of ice as the bow of their ship on a one-way, twenty year plus trip. It didn't stop all the radiation, though. Just enough to keep a minimum number of crew alive to complete their mission. They all developed different types of cancers, anyways,but the kinds that could be treated along the way and extend their chances.
Ah, thank you, you're credible!