On Apr 27, 1:25*am, "Chris.B" wrote:
On Apr 27, 3:30*am, lal_truckee wrote:



These engineers sure could use a classical education - Daedalus warned
Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the
wax. If the engineers only knew what the ancients and RichA know.

Let them use coal.

They could have easily used the crappy solar panels until they did
burn off, then they could use a heat-to-electricity device and just
use the heat available to them in close proximity to the sun.
P.S. Nuclear power cells aren't use just for deep space, they are
used because they are 100% reliable, compact and efficient. UNLIKE
solar panels.