Solar Sail???????

[Psitticine]

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Originally posted by Puke:

hopefully not. the sail (if working in traditional sail fasion) would be deployed in front of the ship to actually pull it. if it was deployed behind, it would need to be attached to rigid struts instead of long cables (or whatever) so that it would not wrap arround the ship when it 'inflates'

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It wouldn't be working in traditional sail fashion. There's no wind in space, you see . . .

<ducking behind nearest plantoid> I couldn't resist! I couldn't resist!

What I had in mind was, in fact, a rigid structure built around the rear of the ship. Not nearly as large as a real solar sail either.

As I say, not staggeringly logical, but that's space opera for ya.