Oumuamua, an object falling through space that was discovered on October 19th, has already made history. The speed at which it is moving relative to the sun means that it cannot be native to the solar system. Its official name is thus 1I/2017 UI, with the “I” stan...
For each site, I will list the system name & data (both the J-sig and the name of the unique system beacon, plus the system effect and entry wormhole type), the name I have made up for the anomaly so that I can keep track of all of them (these are my made up names, NOT CCP...
Such a proposal was investigated in the 1970s under the name Starwisp; it would facilitate 1 ton payloads travelling at 0.11 c [7]. However, such missions would require vast assemblies of Fresnel lenses in orbit to re-collimate the beam and maintain the pressure on the sail [8]. This ...