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To: LibWhacker

I’m thinking of meteorites bouncing off of it. Maybe they can put a heatshield in front of the sail.


4 posted on 02/17/2022 3:55:19 AM PST by Jonty30 (How can you claim to help me with my healthcare costs when you can't pay for your own?)
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To: Jonty30

Imagine the mass of all the shielding, not to mention the effect of things bouncing off if it (deceleration). It would completely destroy the concept of the lightsail. Better to let things pass right through.


11 posted on 02/17/2022 5:04:22 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Jonty30
"meteorites bouncing off"

With the speeds of objects in space, there would only be impacts.

16 posted on 02/17/2022 5:40:40 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Jonty30

“Maybe they can put a heatshield in front of the sail”.

Or make a spinnaker out of “Flex Tape”?

A sail such as this one could be made of aluminized mylar—and put into a synchronized solar orbit—limiting any heat-gain on planet Earth.

(That is, if we can agree on what temperature Earth needs to be).


18 posted on 02/17/2022 6:04:33 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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