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If Solar Sails Work, THEN SO TOO WILL MY LIGHT CANNON

Quick! To Professor Science’s house!

(I’d do that experiment for three lab coats, and I don’t even wear lab coats…)

Published January 15, 2007By Chad Orzel
Categorized as Silliness

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