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February 19th 04, 12:17 PM
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Katherine,
Physicists call it "radiation pressure" and it's measureable in a lab. you can drive spaceships with it, though. There's a great scifi story by Arthur C. Clarke about a solar yacht race using radiation pressure from the sun on big "sails". -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) 
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