Hey Veeky Forums what is so wrong with solar sails I think their great...

Hey Veeky Forums what is so wrong with solar sails I think their great. Doesn't need energy to run and they can move quite fast.

Can't carry shit without turning from "quite fast" to hella slow

Can you explain why please, why would it slow down if you are just strapping weightless objects to it ?

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Weightless doesn't mean massless.

>> doesn't need energy to run
Oh they very much need energy to run

Deploying large flexible structures in space is difficult. The japs were the first ones to get it to work because of their damn origami

>The japs were the first ones to get it to work because of their damn origami
superior gook origami structure too complex for the white man.

takes forever to accelerate. Exponentially less power as you get away from the sun. Prone to damage by radiation/debris

use solar sails navigate towards objects in space so we can slingshot around them

Why don't they use them on some fucking 1kg probes and send a billion out in all directions? Who cares if small tears show up after they're cruising at 0.1c