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New Solar Sail Proposal

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Can we fit it with Injectors? :wink:

(or could somebody model a rather battered and tatty one out in deep space for a chance encounter with an old Earth object...)
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
... out in deep space for a chance encounter with an old Earth object...)
V-GER?
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Smivs wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
... out in deep space for a chance encounter with an old Earth object...)
V-GER?
Sounds like fun... :D
I know... On Star Trek Voyager, they found a pickup truck in the delta quadrant. Wouldn't that be fun in Oolite? Or maybe a house? How about a mission to find Terra? :D
And then we find out Terra is actually Raxxla... :shock:
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Re: New Solar Sail Proposal

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
... out in deep space for a chance encounter with an old Earth object...)
The Prometheus!

This book also has sunflitters as a sport (much as today's sailboat racing), along the with military using them as orbital patrols...
You know those who, having been mugged and stabbed, fired, dog run over, house burned down, wife eloped with best friend, daughters becoming prostitutes and their countries invaded - still say that "all is well"?
I'm obviously not one of them.
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