General / Off-Topic A bit OT: Lightsail, Exploring the Sol System

[Calius Batu]

So, we have discovery scanners to find a system's objects. You guys may find this Kickstarter project interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft?ref=discovery and http://sail.planetary.org/.

 

[Loskene]

Man some people will just throw cash at any ol kickstarter project

Did you look at who's running it?

 

[chel0nian]

Man some people will just throw cash at any ol kickstarter project

Isn't that kind of the point?

 

[Karl Marx]

Man some people will just throw cash at any ol kickstarter project

Uhhh what? Like this is some tiny little nothing project that has no purpose what so ever and is made by anyone other than Bill friggen Nye.

 

[Caramel Clown]

What's wrong with that? Solar sail is a neat idea, and as I understand a working one in theory.

 

[Andy_Pipkin]

Those guys are making true progress, been following this for quite a while.
And it's certainly not a new idea...in fact, Carl Sagan spoke about it in 1976!

http://youtu.be/-cEXKu_Onlk

 

[CaptainSodom]

It's a worthy project with a solid theory behind it. Now they are aiming to test the concept in the real world.

Well, "they" is "we" as I'm a backer