Uhm, it IS going to turn around and head back towards the sun. Do research before you start an argument. :)
PS - This is groundbreaking. Fuel is going to run out sometime - the sail totally negates that problem, allowing for extremely long distance journeys. Once improved upon, it has the potential to carry humans. XD
and, just to add to shut you up. why dont you go to the virgin galatic website, that is the future. opening up space travel and visits to space for commercial use to the general public. then the technology will progress forward as buisness start competing against each other to offer more, such as longer visits, faster travel, and further out in space, but in the mean time shit ideas like this one will keep popping up with people like you thinking its going to change the world... when its not.
@maffew286 buddy virgin galatic why dont u go look up spaceX like virgin in doing something amazing for the public but they are decades and decades behind in manned deep space. With this idea it could get man deeper into space and rockets suck balls except for getting into orbit but in space they run out. ur shit of luck this doesnt run out and future engines like anti-matter ones are decades away before we can contain it for propulsion. Your kind of people keep us in earth orbit.
the fact this video you love so much is sooooo SHIT is that it only has 6261 views...... if this was such a ground breaking thing im sure it would have alot more. hows it feel to have your video out done by a high pitched voiced, retard called fred on you tube?? in fact look at all the videos with Ikaros in it none have more than 10k views, so ermmmm yeh its a shit idea and the human race does need to come up with some thing a little better. thats what i was aiming at
not really an idiotic comment. the concept does work but it is not really practicle. the sail has to be huge! to move small loads. its foil thats finner than a strand of hair big woop, concidering a rock could tear it to pieces in a second. its a big kite in space.... not exactuly ground breaking technology. and im a engineer and can tell when an idea is shit or not. like me jumping of the Eiffel tower = bad idea, but for you id suggest it if you think this is guna change the world LOL at you!
so since the rocket this is the best they can come up with? tin foil and a bake bean can. can the human race please pull thier finger out there ass and make something that will actully change the world? unless you can turn this ''sail'' inside out and come back towards the sun its a lil pointless lol
@maffew286 plz stop pretending that you have a clue about anything.... this is a demo to prove that the concept works and is way more than tin foil and a can. No manmade thing has been able to travel away from earths gravitational field w/o fuel, this is bigger than when someone set sail from shore to an island they could see, much less sail out to sea to show that earth was round. All I ask of you is dont leave idiotic comments and plz the next time i say no pickles on my burger get it right
@maffew286 plz stop pretending that you have a clue about anything.... this is a demo to prove that the concept works and is way more than tin foil and a can. No manmade thing has been able to travel away from earths gravitational field w/o fuel, this is bigger than when someone set sail from shore to an island they could see, much less sail out to sea to show that earth was round. All I ask of you is dont leave idiotic comments and plz the next time i say no pickles on my burger get it right
I read A C Clarke's solar sail a couple of decades ago, so these numbers are from memory.. and where probably somewhat speculative when Clarke wrote about this.
However, from what I recall.
A sail 2 miles in diameter would accelerate 1/4 of a ton (small craft) at 1/30,000 G.
at this barely perceptible, yet constant acceleration, such a craft would be travelling at 90% of the speed of light and leave the solar system in about a week.
Uhm, it IS going to turn around and head back towards the sun. Do research before you start an argument. :)
PS - This is groundbreaking. Fuel is going to run out sometime - the sail totally negates that problem, allowing for extremely long distance journeys. Once improved upon, it has the potential to carry humans. XD
TheRealAbish 1 year ago
and, just to add to shut you up. why dont you go to the virgin galatic website, that is the future. opening up space travel and visits to space for commercial use to the general public. then the technology will progress forward as buisness start competing against each other to offer more, such as longer visits, faster travel, and further out in space, but in the mean time shit ideas like this one will keep popping up with people like you thinking its going to change the world... when its not.
maffew286 1 year ago
@maffew286 buddy virgin galatic why dont u go look up spaceX like virgin in doing something amazing for the public but they are decades and decades behind in manned deep space. With this idea it could get man deeper into space and rockets suck balls except for getting into orbit but in space they run out. ur shit of luck this doesnt run out and future engines like anti-matter ones are decades away before we can contain it for propulsion. Your kind of people keep us in earth orbit.
nateextreme0969 9 months ago
@maffew286 don't celebrate with the world when humans reach mars in a photon powered spacecraft.
ArabAstronomy 6 months ago
the fact this video you love so much is sooooo SHIT is that it only has 6261 views...... if this was such a ground breaking thing im sure it would have alot more. hows it feel to have your video out done by a high pitched voiced, retard called fred on you tube?? in fact look at all the videos with Ikaros in it none have more than 10k views, so ermmmm yeh its a shit idea and the human race does need to come up with some thing a little better. thats what i was aiming at
maffew286 1 year ago
not really an idiotic comment. the concept does work but it is not really practicle. the sail has to be huge! to move small loads. its foil thats finner than a strand of hair big woop, concidering a rock could tear it to pieces in a second. its a big kite in space.... not exactuly ground breaking technology. and im a engineer and can tell when an idea is shit or not. like me jumping of the Eiffel tower = bad idea, but for you id suggest it if you think this is guna change the world LOL at you!
maffew286 1 year ago
so since the rocket this is the best they can come up with? tin foil and a bake bean can. can the human race please pull thier finger out there ass and make something that will actully change the world? unless you can turn this ''sail'' inside out and come back towards the sun its a lil pointless lol
maffew286 1 year ago
@maffew286 plz stop pretending that you have a clue about anything.... this is a demo to prove that the concept works and is way more than tin foil and a can. No manmade thing has been able to travel away from earths gravitational field w/o fuel, this is bigger than when someone set sail from shore to an island they could see, much less sail out to sea to show that earth was round. All I ask of you is dont leave idiotic comments and plz the next time i say no pickles on my burger get it right
alwaysmuvin 1 year ago
@maffew286 plz stop pretending that you have a clue about anything.... this is a demo to prove that the concept works and is way more than tin foil and a can. No manmade thing has been able to travel away from earths gravitational field w/o fuel, this is bigger than when someone set sail from shore to an island they could see, much less sail out to sea to show that earth was round. All I ask of you is dont leave idiotic comments and plz the next time i say no pickles on my burger get it right
alwaysmuvin 1 year ago
Go Japan!!!
bulitrocket 1 year ago
Is it small?
Mangostine1 1 year ago
I read A C Clarke's solar sail a couple of decades ago, so these numbers are from memory.. and where probably somewhat speculative when Clarke wrote about this.
However, from what I recall.
A sail 2 miles in diameter would accelerate 1/4 of a ton (small craft) at 1/30,000 G.
at this barely perceptible, yet constant acceleration, such a craft would be travelling at 90% of the speed of light and leave the solar system in about a week.
We could be inter-stellar in a couple of decades.
marsCubed 1 year ago
@marsCubed were*(sp)
marsCubed 1 year ago