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Re: Contest Entry for Non-violent space contest: Dragon-ISV
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 29 May 2001 19:50:43 GMT
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In lugnet.space, George Haberberger writes:
> In lugnet.space, Trevor Pruden writes:
> > Ya'know, to expand on this theme I'm actually
> > surprised that no one has tried to make a solar sailing vessel. It would be
> > slow...granted, but that's not the point. It could be this small central
> > craft with big beautiful milar sails or something like that. hmmmmm..
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> Interesting, but how pure could you make a Lego Solar Sailing ship? Would it
> be pure enough if you reused the holey bags that the parts come in? They're
> not mylar, though.
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> If you go with Mylar, you don't have a pure Lego solution. I prefer Mylar,
> but then if I made a Lego catamaran, I'd make sales out of muslin.
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> George
I wasn't going to tell anyone until I made the model very soon, but.....
Remember that huge, useless solar panel on the LOM solar explorer? Well if
you had, say, 3 of them then they would look just like the sails of a space
yacht! The problem is getting more of them. Anyone want to mail some to me :)
ZaC
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 | | Re: Contest Entry for Non-violent space contest: Dragon-ISV
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| (...) That is exactly what I was thinking! When I saw those sail-solar panel thingies, I thought: Okay - no real use anywhere else, but it would make a great solar sail. Or six to eight of them would make a great set of solar array for a low orbit (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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