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Citizen-funded solar sail will fly in May

 
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:04 pm    Post subject: Citizen-funded solar sail will fly in May Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
In the video the size of the deployed sail is mentioned twice, by two different participants, as being "32 meters square". They should be saying "32 square meters", as the size of the four diagonal supporting arms is given in the text as 4 meters each.

How's that for nerdiness?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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