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[+] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If it would work, it would be by stopping the angular momentum around the sun, then letting the sun’s gravity pull the object in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This sounds incredibly legit, but question: Could you not gain a shit ton of momentum sailing directly with the wind in a regular boat, then drop your sails and steer into the direction of it to maintain some amount of velocity for an amount of time? Feels like the same principle could be applied here, especially because they would swap between photon momentum and gravitational momentum