Light Sails Won't Work?

Rand Simberg wrote:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zg.html

Interesting...


For those who are interested, the New Scientist press release (which is
merely repeated on the SpaceDaily website) refers to Gold's recent
preprint, "The solar sail and the mirror," which appeared on the LANL
preprint server. See http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0306050

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Alex R. Blackwell
University of Hawaii