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Old December 8th, 2002, 06:31 AM
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Default Re: thoughts - the source of all problems and disbalances

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consider how a comet's tail always faces away from the sun because of the solar wind (i.e. light) pushing the recently-melted ice particles directly away from the sun
The solar wind is made up of charged particles, not photons.

Momentum transfer from photons is how solar sails work.
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