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To: SunkenCiv
The craft would turn itself or its sails around the halfway point, duh.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillianscudder/2017/02/08/astroquizzical-slow-solar-sail/

41 posted on 09/09/2018 4:59:26 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad
the infrared from Proxima Centauri (a red dwarf) would work to slow it down, but it would take time, and with wings this big the odds of damage from encountering some rocks is pretty great.

In the laser-boosted scenario, as given a number of years ago (I read it in the 1990s I think) the brakes would be applied by a leading craft. The probe would be bringing up the rear. As the solar energy became strong enough (assuming everything in working order), the laser in the leading craft would acquire the probe craft and apply the needed deceleration. The leading laser craft would just keep on sailing, finally crashing into a muslim wedding in a baby food factory built hundreds of years in the future, construction made possible by currently unimagined or unavailable transportation technology, along with witless 7th century superstition.

43 posted on 09/09/2018 5:20:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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