ITT: We discuss solar sailing and opinions
Fucking Japs and their origami beat us to it. Fun fact: the same satellite it launched with also had some anime and other weebshit on it
>>8085453
I don't think it's weeb shit if it's actually Japanese...
I say use solar sails to ship stuff to Mars for building a colony and then plant the sails at one of the Lagrange points to continuously heat Mars.
>>8085456
Weebshit, moeshit, otakushit, it's all the same shit.
There is a probe orbiting venus right now, with aluminum plates etched with a fucking anime character.
Has people came up with an idea of how to stop it/decelerate?
>>8085492
Sure. It was even described in Accellerando. Basically you detach a part that continues on but reflect the light back into your remaining sail but now from the opposite side.
Can't wait for space pirates to roam the void between suns.
>>8085562
Goddammit cite Rocheworld instead, that was by Forward who came up with the mirror idea.
>>8085894
fuck DS9