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Solar Sail Will Work, says Planetary Society

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-and-forth dept.

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."

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  1. Wehrner Von Braun said it best by Raul654 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

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    To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    --E.C. Stanton