OT: Ceres more interesting than previously thought

[dogscoff]

Any kind of radiation harmful to humans has to react/be blocked by something on the order of the thickness of the human body,

Line the hull with human bodies? A massive orbital cemetary, where the deceased are more than just worm-food...

Someone mentiond story referrencing tranparent shup hulls, the only one i can think of was "ringworld Engineers" by Larry Niven.

It was a short story - probably only 1000 or 2000 words. If I remember rightly some guy was sent to investigate a mysterious and deadly stellar phenomonomnom of some sort, and was given a ship to do it in.

I've never read any novels by Niven so I doubt it's him, although if he's ever featured in any short-stroy anthologies I might have stumbled across him without realisng it. I'll take a look at my bookshelf later.
*** far as short stories go I've read a lot of Asimov, a fair bit of Bradbury (Illustrated Man was his, wasn't it?) and various others. From memory I have "The Golden Apples of the Sun" on my bookcase. Was that by one author or a collection of people?