If you are going on a one way trip, the sails will become useless at some
distance away from the sun (or the lasers, as they disperse). If you're
making a trip to another solar system, you could then reel the sails in,
grind them up, and use them as propellant. This would dictate what type of
material you can make the sails out of.
The idea is that they're light, so the better designed they are, the less
propellant they would provice, but it would be something.
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Zeb Haradon (zebharadon@hotmail.com)
My personal webpage:
http://www.inconnect.com/~zharadon/ubunix
A movie I'm directing:
http://www.elevatormovie.com
"What is this, some Three Stooges episode where everyone is armed with pies?
Bill Gates is supposed to walk through the airport with an armful of pies
so that he can stoop to the level of his attackers?" -Chris Russo
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