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LightSail, Planetary Society's Solar Sail mission (Redux)
Juramike
post Nov 9 2009, 09:02 PM
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ngunn
post Nov 12 2009, 07:56 PM
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Also depends on what you mean by 'solar sailing'. After all you can fly a kite or sail a model boat without being on board. My gripe is with the artwork itself. It appears to show a wrinkly surface on the sail panels yet the Earth's reflection is not broken up accordingly. Fortunately both the artwork and the caption pale into insignificance beside the fact that the project is going ahead. smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif
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Rick Sternbach
post Nov 15 2009, 05:20 AM
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 12 2009, 11:56 AM) *
My gripe is with the artwork itself. It appears to show a wrinkly surface on the sail panels yet the Earth's reflection is not broken up accordingly.


I thought about crackling up the Earth reflection a bit more, but I decided that most folks would have fixated on the unevenness of the reflection and not seen the bigger picture, so to speak. Sometimes complete photographic reality in art is not the best way to go.

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- Juramike   LightSail   Nov 9 2009, 09:02 PM
- - djellison   YAY!! Thank you anonymous donator!...   Nov 9 2009, 09:26 PM
- - ngunn   I was wondering what they were about to announce, ...   Nov 9 2009, 09:50 PM
- - PhilCo126   What a way to commemorate the late Dr Carl Sagan.....   Nov 10 2009, 11:53 AM
- - nprev   Nice little article on Reuters....go, TPS, go, Lig...   Nov 11 2009, 01:58 AM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   There's a longer article in the New York Times...   Nov 11 2009, 08:57 PM
- - PhilCo126   75 years: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/cultur...   Nov 11 2009, 03:38 PM
- - nprev   Not necessarily a bad thing. Thoughful technical c...   Nov 11 2009, 09:15 PM
|- - MahFL   "humans may soon be solar-sailing". Who ...   Nov 12 2009, 02:35 PM
|- - centsworth_II   Re: "humans may soon be solar-sailing" ...   Nov 13 2009, 04:57 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Nov 12 2009, 08:57...   Nov 13 2009, 05:18 AM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Nov 13 2009, 04:57...   Nov 13 2009, 09:07 AM
- - Juramike   Depends on your definition of "soon". G...   Nov 12 2009, 04:00 PM
- - ngunn   Also depends on what you mean by 'solar sailin...   Nov 12 2009, 07:56 PM
|- - Rick Sternbach   QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 12 2009, 11:56 AM) My ...   Nov 15 2009, 05:20 AM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Rick Sternbach @ Nov 15 2009, 05:2...   Nov 15 2009, 08:34 AM
||- - Rick Sternbach   QUOTE (ngunn @ Nov 15 2009, 12:34 AM) No ...   Nov 15 2009, 04:28 PM
|- - Stu   QUOTE (Rick Sternbach @ Nov 15 2009, 05:2...   Nov 15 2009, 08:47 AM
- - djellison   I will say - having tried in the past a bit - doin...   Nov 13 2009, 08:44 AM
- - djellison   Your lens flare useage is a diagnosable psychiatri...   Nov 15 2009, 09:12 AM
- - Stu   RE: LightSail   Nov 15 2009, 09:27 AM
- - PDP8E   The Brits have a killer app for sail-tech http://...   Mar 30 2010, 04:39 PM
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