Topic awaiting preservation: Solar Super-Sail Could Reach Mars in a Month

while captain James T. Kirk (and Spock of course), Picard and all the other Enterprise fellas still rely on the Warp Drive, we (humans) do also quite fine
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/01/1351223&from=rss

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(Edited by mas on 02-01-2005 18:19)

Kirk and Picard weren't humans?

^^^^ahhhh........errrrr....damn you

Hmmmm, so they shoot microwaves from Earth to propel the thing, I can believe that.

So how does the crew get back to Earth afterwards?

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Sounds great, but how do they stop?!

I'm scared!

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krets said:

Hmmmm, so they shoot microwaves from Earth to propel the thing, I can believe that.

So how does the crew get back to Earth afterwards?

:::11oh1:::

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well, i also thought about the same thing when i read that

The first thing I thought while reading about the microwave thingy was:

1.21 GIGAWATTS!!!

:::11oh1:::

Maybe they could use the sun rays on way back because they go away from the sun, isnt mars closer to the sun ? I dunno. It could only be for probes too.

Nah, mars is further away than earth.

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Sounds great, but how do they stop?!

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Mars would probably provide adequate resistance.

Wes: but actually there's only one mean to make sure.
In a way your remark makes me think to the "Deep Impact" project of the Nasa. Let's build a several millions dollars probe and smash it as fast as possible on a comet to see what happens.

So in a way we are going to use an giant microwave-tube to "steam" to mars???
And we are going to put this giant tube on the earth surface?

Fried dove all the time?....mmmm

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