American Scientist has recently posted a story that talks about ‘navigating the cosmos on the winds of starlight’.

“Sailing on light is the only technology that can someday take us to the stars.” according to Louis Friedman, director of the Planetary Society, the worldwide organization of space enthusiasts. Nanomaya had already posted a story how during some 2000 years ago the world’s first Hi-tech Aircraft, a starship that could refuel itself from the sun’s energy is mentioned in the “Vimana Shastra”.

It seems like every civilization reaches its peak of renaissance and eventually fades away into lost terrains because of some catastrophy either nature driven or because of manmade irrevocable decisions. And then in bits and parts it rediscovers again to reinvent itself and how it seems astonished at the relics as seen in the in the pyramids and other historical evidences that suddenly come to light.

Read more about the latest starship LightSail-1 in the American scientist as it is dubbed, it will not make it to Neverland. At best the device will sail a few hours and gain a few miles in altitude. But those hours will mark a milestone for a dream that is almost as old as the rocket age itself, and as romantic: to navigate the cosmos on winds of starlight the way sailors for thousands of years have navigated the ocean on the winds of the Earth.
 

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