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Gravity? I guess something with enough mass to use gravity might be too large to use solar sails.
by adolph 5y ago
Gravity? I guess something with enough mass to use gravity might be too large to use solar sails.
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoGravity does not actually provide a force in the sense that a sailboat would require. (It acts on all parts of the vessel equally.) There is some work on the idea of using both a photon sail and a magnetic sail on a single vessel. In many interesting locations, these would push in different directions, allowing you to sail.