[extropy-chat] Suicide the Green way

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:54:41PM -0800, spike wrote:

> That Carnot rule sounded solid, but I already knew that stuff does
> definitely get pushed away from the sun by light pressure from Amara's PhD

Actually, it doesn't. It depends on where your reradiated photons
go. You can raise the orbit or lower it, by way of e.g. tilting your
orbiting mirror.

(Doesn't apply to dust grains, which is an isodirectional radiator,
at least averaged over time).

> thesis.  Thanks Amara, for writing about such a cool topic!  {8^]

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