Solar sailing

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Fucking Japs and their origami beat us to it. Fun fact: the same satellite it launched with also had some anime and other weebshit on it

>>8085453
I don't think it's weeb shit if it's actually Japanese...

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I say use solar sails to ship stuff to Mars for building a colony and then plant the sails at one of the Lagrange points to continuously heat Mars.

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>>8085456
Weebshit, moeshit, otakushit, it's all the same shit.

There is a probe orbiting venus right now, with aluminum plates etched with a fucking anime character.

Has people came up with an idea of how to stop it/decelerate?

>>8085492
Sure. It was even described in Accellerando. Basically you detach a part that continues on but reflect the light back into your remaining sail but now from the opposite side.

Can't wait for space pirates to roam the void between suns.

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>>8085562
Goddammit cite Rocheworld instead, that was by Forward who came up with the mirror idea.

>>8085894
fuck DS9