>From the PBEM recap:
> The snowball sprayed hydrogen between
> the Alcyon and the fleet, and jumped. As Alcyon jumped, they
> ignited the hydrogen to blind the fleet's sensors (at least
> temporarily) to their neutrino trail.
Aiigh! :-) "igniting the hydrogen" was bad enough :-) :-). But
I *absolutely refuse* to make burning hydrogen impenetrable to
neutrinos. In *anyone's* universe. Period. :-)
Seriously, neutrinos will penetrate even several feet of
superdense hull with unmeasurable attenuation
-- who knows how the TL99 magic black box
neutrino detectors work, but here on Earth at TL8 (or so) we
use bazillions of gallons of water and hope that one or two
neutrinos per gazillion will be absorbed in it. Your burning
hydrogen would affect a neutrino trail not at all.
I think the burning hydrogen just obscured essential sensor
information in the visible and infrared :-).
Bart Massey
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