Sunjammer II (Side)

    Cleaned up version of a previous upload.

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    1. ImperialScouts (34 months ago | reply)

      That's really sweet. Talk about charging your ship, being right next to a sun.

      That or there is a giant explosion and the guy is, well, doomed.

      I prefer my first guess :D

    2. .The Black Rabbit. (34 months ago | reply)

      Thats a pretty neat ship and it is solar powered right?

    3. S!egfried (34 months ago | reply)

      It's powered by the pressure of the sun and particles ejected from the sun ("solar winds"). There's a great write up on the science here...

      www.planetary.org/programs/projects/innovativ e_technologi...

      ...but concept has been tested only to a limited degree. For example Mariner 10 (sent to Mercury and Venus) used the concept for attitude control to reduce fuel usage.

      But as ImperialScouts says, it's a pretty dangerous idea! To get maximum speed you need to go as close to the sun as possible as the density of the particles increase, as does the solar winds.

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    5. Captain Green Hair (34 months ago | reply)

      That looks cool as hell, i'd like to try it on a surfboard. :-D
      Are the transparent wings a PS effect, or is it some part i don't know about?

    6. S!egfried (33 months ago | reply)

      Thanks CGH! While I do think (in the distant future) this is possible, I can't see anyone doing it on a surfboard unless they had 10 Trillion+ sunblock...

      The sails are an effect, not a piece. I did consider several options when making this; lunch wrap, old LEGO packets, loads and loads of transparent parts... but ultimately since I was making this for a comic doing it as an effect made more sense. Also, if I brick built it there would have been too much weight, forcing me to strengthen up the struts. That would have ruined the look I was going for and/or made the photo taking much harder.

      I'll post some raw photos on EB in the next few days.

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