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Solar Sail Will Work, says Planetary Society
degauss writes "In response to Cornell Physicist Thomas Gold's paper declaring the theroy behind solar sails flawed (previously mentioned in this Slashdot article), Louis Freedman, executive director of the Planetary Society (the organization behind the COSMOS project), has written a brief rebuttal to the claims in Dr. Gold's paper regarding the feasibility of solar sails for use as a method of transportation in space. He does not go in to detail with equations and such, but does give an overview of the reasons he believes Gold's hypothesis is incorrect."
Solar sails blow!
This reminds me of some of the most common last words:
"Check this out! - It's gonna work!"
will the lameness filter catch all my caps cause they are like yealling?
Too bad the "Correct Spelling Filter" didn't catch you.
Hide their protractors!
(Or is it their compasses? [compassi?] {I mean the pointy ones with the stabbing..and he eyes....glavin!})
Sweet!
My career as a Solar Pirate is looking more promising everyday
Yarrr!
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
"Your years of toil,"
Said Ryle to Hoyle,
"Are wasted years, believe me.
The steady state
Is out of date
Unless my eyes deceive me,
My telescope
Has dashed your hope;
Your tenets are refuted
Let me be terse
Our Universe
Grows daily more diluted!"
Said Hoyle, "You quote
Lemaître, I note,
And Gamow. Well forget them!
That errant gang
And their Big Bang-
Why aid them and abet them?
You see, my friend,
It has no end
And there was no beginning,
As Bondi, Gold
And I will hold
Until our hair is thinning!"
Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On A Technicality --theonion.com
In this country we follow the laws of THERMODYNAMICS. This type of hacking is ILLEGAL. If you want to hack Solar Sails YOU MUST PURCHASE SAID ENERGY. We are going to see that this website is taken down immediately. We will log IP addresses of anyone who visits this site and we WILL find you and prosecute you to the maximum extent permissible under the LAW.
I'm not sure what, but I'm pretty "profit" needs to go in there somewhere.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena.
4. Apply for a scientific grant and have some graduate students to get a lil' profit
5. Perform experimental test.
6. Apply for a patent. You will get the patent, is too easy these days.
7. Sue someone and profit even more
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
There is no such thing as centfugal force. The two forces in effect with orbit are momentum, and gravity.
If you want to get pedantic about it, there's no such thing as gravity. It's just inertia/momentum acting on a curved space-time.
(at least if you buy general relativity)