https://blog.speculist.com/space/sailing-to-mars.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://blog.speculist.com/space/sailing-to-mars.html#comment-8521 AndrewS Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:25:59 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=107#comment-8521 Quite a while ago (1990 or before), Robert Forward (and probably other authors) proposed using a similar strategy to travel to a nearby star. His idea used lasers rather than plasma, and it used a two-part sail to decelerate half of it at the destination, rather than a second laser at the destination. His book Rocheworld was great from an ‘idea’ perspective, although it lacked a bit in the writing style and characterization areas.

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