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Spacecraft use drinking water as a radiation shield
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Your drinking supply doubling as a barrier against deadly cosmic rays is peak multi-tasking. Because heavy metal shielding costs millions to launch into orbit, engineers line the sleeping quarters with bags of drinking water instead. Liquid water is phenomenally good at absorbing dangerous space radiation before it hits human DNA.
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