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NASA to Launch Solar Sail

Posted by timothy on from the cue-bad-brains dept.

arbitraryaardvark writes "Physorg reports that NASA will launch a solar sail around the end of July. It'll be the first of its kind; a previous attempt blew up. It's a small proof-of-concept gizmo, not a full-on spaceyacht. Solar sails operate on photon pressure from sunlight. They are well known to science fiction readers, otherwise not so much." C-net has coverage, too.

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  1. Re:Ah, sigh by neokushan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Package a movie with a couple of hunks and babes as well as some explosions and dramatic music, and nobody is going to care about its accuracy.

    Well, except sad bastards like us.

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    +1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
  2. Re:Let me guess... by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    while FedEx is traversing through worm holes

    Oh great! So FedEx will now tell me that my package was delivered. The bad news: it was delivered to me in an alternate reality. With my signature to prove it no doubt. Never mind the fact that "I" didn't get the damn package.

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    Life is not for the lazy.
  3. Re:Let me guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Meanwhile, UPS will just launch the damn thing into a black hole and say customer service is 'working on it.'