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Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by jessriedel on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:36PM (#11483348)
Yea, thanks. I think my mistake was in imagining that the sail would need to be pulling a localized payload, so that force would need to be transmitted from sail to payload using a cross-sectional area small compared to the sail. But it sounds more like the payload is integrated into the sail.

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