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Solar Super-Sail Could Reach Mars in a Month

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the check-out-that-stylish-new-icon dept.

ti-coune sent us a story running on newscientist describing solar super sails and how they could one day get us to Mars in a month. The key is a special new paint. The cast of Trading Spaces is unavailable for comment.

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  1. Cats. by GillBates0 · · Score: -1, Troll
    A further challenge is how to formulate the evaporating paint. The ideal material would lock up large amounts of a light gas like hydrogen and only release it at very high temperature, when the high speed of the gas molecules would maximise the recoil.

    I recommend cats. Millions...no beelions of cats attached to the super-sail would serve the purpose nicely.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHA

    --
    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  2. patent law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Union Aerospace Corporation will sue them for infringe on the patent

  3. Apparently we have a new section by Bobvanvliet · · Score: 0, Troll

    I for one, welcome our new Martian overlords.

    Or is this the work of (over)enthousiastic mods?