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Old January 11th, 2001, 09:05 PM
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Default Re: Solar Sail???????

Here's an idea: maybe the "solar sail" is capturing the solar wind (and other emanations, like background radiation in nebulae) and feeding that energy into the engines as a kind of "overdrive". That avoids the problem of it acting as a "sail". It would really be more of a ramscoop... hmmm... now I have more ideas... I'll have to go off and think now...
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