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1 posted on 05/24/2022 8:47:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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“As we venture”

Eat it! I’m never going venture, the elites are. I’m going to keep paying for it like I always have.


2 posted on 05/24/2022 8:56:10 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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Very old concept. So old I can’t remember when it was in PopSci. At least 50 years ago cause I was still a kid.


3 posted on 05/24/2022 8:56:34 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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“The Wind from the Sun”...

One of my favorite Arthur C. Clarke stories.


4 posted on 05/24/2022 9:15:37 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Using solar is a responsible use of energy. Solar instead of fossil fuels is a renewable source of energy that does not emit carbon into the atmosphere of space. /Sarc.


7 posted on 05/24/2022 10:29:51 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: BenLurkin

NASA launches a new multi-billion dollar project that will only see the light of day decades later, if then.


8 posted on 05/25/2022 4:31:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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With no keel, I wonder how it will tack to go up wind.


10 posted on 05/25/2022 10:08:43 AM PDT by brooklin
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I hope they can keep the drawings and specs away from the Chicoms.


12 posted on 05/25/2022 10:49:42 AM PDT by Rappini
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Question... Stargate Atlantis had an episode where on a space walk one guy got pummeled by tiny fragments of rock/asteroids... I kinda believe that close to a reality. If this solar sail did come to fruition, would space debri rip it to shreds, or since space is weightless, would the debris simply bounce off and no damage??


14 posted on 05/28/2022 7:36:47 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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