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New Solar Sail Proposal

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:20 pm
by DaddyHoggy
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...)

Re: New Solar Sail Proposal

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:48 pm
by Smivs
DaddyHoggy wrote:
... out in deep space for a chance encounter with an old Earth object...)
V-GER?

Re: New Solar Sail Proposal

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:59 pm
by RyanHoots
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:

Re: New Solar Sail Proposal

Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:05 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
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...