Xref: utzoo rec.autos:5912 talk.bizarre:6120 alt.flame:895 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!daegin From: daegin@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Rick Miller) Newsgroups: rec.autos,talk.bizarre,alt.flame Subject: Re: Truly relevant discussion Message-ID: <3847@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 87 21:40:22 GMT References: <4134@bellcore.bellcore.com> <7106@sunybcs.UUCP> <2770@super.upenn.edu> Sender: daemon@uwmcsd1.UUCP Reply-To: daegin@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Rick Miller) Organization: None... Just ask my roomate. Lines: 10 ulrich@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Nathan Ulrich) wrote: >(by the way, I think this is how the outer space "sun-sailers" work, by using >the photon pressure to move spacecraft....it really is a measurable phenomenon Well, yeah... But isn't GETTING STARTED a real bugger? I mean, I've shined a REAL BRIGHT flashlight at a mirror, and I didn't feel any push at all!!! I guess the sunlight's just a little more agressive in space...