Re: Modder brainstorming session
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IRL a new "solar sail" has been invented, it uses plasma to "inflate" a magnetic field to create a huge reflective bubble. The WORKING model is the size of a pickel jar and can create a sail 1/2 a square mile!
*narf!*
Do you have a URL for this?
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/head...p19aug99_1.htm
This article only describes a proposed prototype, not a working model, but the article is 21 months old, so it may have been built by now.
[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 21 May 2001).]
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