There goes that idea out the window...

Fri Jul 04, 2003 11:33 pm by freighter fighter

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993895

Fri Jul 04, 2003 11:51 pm by _zero

aww man

I saw that along time ago on discovery.and I hoped it worked to bad.

Sat Jul 05, 2003 4:43 am by Tachyon

Hmm, I thought solar sails relied more on solar wind (heh, funny when you think of this in laymens terms. Solar sails and solar wind) rather than the actual light. Though IMO, none of this is important until we figure out how to get into orbit easily.

Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:23 pm by kimk

hey.. isn't that sail supposed to go into a forever journey? whats this about going into orbit?

Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:25 pm by freighter fighter

well in order to travel into space...it has to GET into orbit first

Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:32 pm by Tachyon

Yes, but everything in space is about orbits. Even when going to the moon for example, you don't leave Earth orbit, you just go into a higher orbit, and then transfer into orbit around the moon. Same thing for the Earth-Sun relationship. Even if you're going far out as Jupiter or something you're just raising your orbit around the sun.

Sun Jul 06, 2003 4:50 am by mustang

FF what ever possesed to post exactly the same topic twice? Y'know you can edit your original post and change the title if you like.

Im giving this one the padlock because the other has more responses.

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