No...someone else did a series on solar wind powered sail spaceships...read
them a long time ago but can't remember who...

"Scout" wrote in message
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well, I'm gonna buy a solar sail boat just in case.
btw - did you see the SciAm story on the solar wind sailing spaceship?
Scout

"katysails" wrote in message
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Hopefully, that won't happen to us...
"Scout" wrote in message
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Yeah, that's what I hear.
Did you hear the theory that claims Mars may have lost its liquid
water
when
it lost its magnetic field?
If I remember correctly, the theorists claimed the planet was left
unprotected against solar wind, which was free to 'scrub' the
atmosphere,
which lowered atmos pressure, allowed the liquid water to boil off and
also
be 'scrubbed' from the planet. Or something like that.
Scout

"katysails" wrote in message
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It's reversing as we speak, donchaknow......
"Scout" wrote in message
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I thought he might have been referring to the Earth's magnetic
field.
Scout

"Parallax" wrote
1. Why doesn't lightning travel in a helical path since it
does
traverse
a
magnetic field?