In 1976, Carl Sagan appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about a crazy new idea: solar sailing [video: buff.ly/2MZRFN6]. 46 years later, The Planetary Society is realizing this dream with a spacecraft called LightSail 2 [learn more: buff.ly/3B6vPk5]
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Are you telling me it will take 46 yrs for the orthodoxies to realise, dynamic behaviourism is the technologies which will enable faster in time and zero g attributes.
Counting from now.
God help us if anything aggressive does turn up in the meantime!
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I watch old Carson episodes now and then. Totally forgot about Sagan's appearances until I saw this.
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I wonder does solar sail allow travel from outer to inner planets in the solar system? Or just from inner to outer planets?
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I saw that! I remember watching that and thinking how cool it was. I miss Carl Sagan he was a wonderful communicator and ambassador for science. I’m so grateful he helped to give the world to carry on that legacy.
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He never successfully explained how one could ‘tack in to the sun’. A large parachute being blown by the solar wind is nothing like a sailboat which relies on wind & water.
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