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April 20, 2005 | 11:05 pm, by Pascalle Lepas

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Comments

  • Teguki

    Hang on! The sails and (what I assume is a) propeller are facing in reverse!??

  •  The propeller swivels to help the ship function in a 3d environment (like space) and the sails aren’t air sails, they’re solar sails. They simply provide energy for thrust.

  • OctoDude

    That truly is one HAPPY ship.  :-D

  • Marduk

    Looks like a super happy blow fish takin a dive. Lol’d when for some reason i thought it said the ‘splash!’

  • Great Justice

     You do realise that solar sails are actually sheets of very thin, reflective material, designed to use the pressure created by a star’s radiation hitting their surface to propel a spacecraft. In other words they function similarly to conventional sails.

  • Great Justice

    …right?

  • A Crazy Monkey

    well mostly right, but it’s not “radiation”. Solar sails use the momentum transfer from photons, or “light particles” in the same basic idea as terrestrial sails use the impact of air particles.

  • Negatron

    Um… light is a form of electromagnetic radiation

  • Jacze

    Pwned by physics.

  • Squid

    By Zarquon, it’s a comic. Artistic licence!

  • Crestlinger

    Happy ship on one side, overburdened bird on the other.

  • saskyou

    Well, we’re probably many hundred years into space future. (or in a galaxy far, far away)
    I bet the lingo simply changed to represent this fancy space future technology instead of the crappy almost-space-future technology.

  • Green Arrow

    This is in the future… The human race wants to rule everything…read the first couple comics again…

  • John Smith

    Happy happy joy joy!

  • Rexan

    Solar sails can have different rules in fiction. ;)

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