8. Engineers have been working on magnetic and plasma shielding.
It works - the magnetic field would work well to keep the high-energy charged particles away from the ship and crew.
The biggest problem is that it requires a shitload of power - the ship would have to have a nuclear reactor or some insanely huge solar panels to run the thing.
Of course, if you're gonna put a nuclear reactor onboard, might as well put on a VASIMR drive, and make the trip a hell of a lot shorter.
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