dvideohd
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Wind will come back again...
Sailing may yet make it back to the front of technology.......
There was a good attempt to put a sailing vehicle in orbit....
http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/0930_Solar_Sail_Update_The_End_of_Cosmos_1.html
It's a whole different ball game about learning to sail with and against the "wind" - but there is potential... Not much is really known about sailing on the solar wind.. but it does capture a certain imagination...
--jerry
Sailing may yet make it back to the front of technology.......
There was a good attempt to put a sailing vehicle in orbit....
http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/0930_Solar_Sail_Update_The_End_of_Cosmos_1.html
It's a whole different ball game about learning to sail with and against the "wind" - but there is potential... Not much is really known about sailing on the solar wind.. but it does capture a certain imagination...
--jerry
