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Bill Nye's organization, Planetary Society, is launching a solar sail @ 10:05 AM
Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:52 am
Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:52 am
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Link to Vox.com article
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Most spacecraft, once launched from the Earth, move around in space with thrusters: small rockets that burn fuel, emit exhaust, and push the craft along.
At 11:05 am ET Wednesday morning, scientists will test a very different kind of spacecraft: the LightSail, which has a large, thin Mylar sail designed to catch sunlight and convert the pressure of solar rays into forward momentum.
Link to Vox.com article
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Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:55 am to colorchangintiger
Bill Nye is a fraud
Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:56 am to colorchangintiger
Makes sense. Photovoltaic cells get 5x higher production in space because of the lack of atmospheric interference.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 9:59 am to colorchangintiger
Making baking soda volcanoes doesn't make you a scientist
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:03 am to BigEdLSU
quote:this isn't a PV cell
Makes sense. Photovoltaic cells get 5x higher production in space because of the lack of atmospheric interference.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:07 am to BRgetthenet
He's a pretty smart dude:
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He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University (where he took an astronomy class taught by Carl Sagan)[11] and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering in 1977.[12] Nye occasionally returns to Cornell as a professor to guest-lecture introductory-level astronomy and human ecology classes
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Nye began his career in Seattle at Boeing, where (among other things) he starred in training films and developed a hydraulic pressure resonance suppressor for the 747. Later, he worked as a consultant in the aeronautics industry.
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In the early 2000s, Nye assisted in the development of a small sundial that was included in the Mars Exploration Rover missions.[3] Known as MarsDial, it included small colored panels to provide a basis for color calibration in addition to helping keep track of time.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:08 am to colorchangintiger
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beakman's World ruled.
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:28 am to colorchangintiger
Posted on 5/20/15 at 10:31 am to baytiger
Ok and? It still will work 5x better in space than on earth.
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