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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
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Robert Heinlein liked this idea too, and he used it in his 1941 classic Methuselah's Children. In the story, he pushes a spaceship close to the sun, then goes inertialess - the ship is kicked to the next star system by light pressure alone. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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