NASA's 40 Billion Dollar Astro-Sailboat

I really like the concept behind this project. I really do. NASA is using lasers to push tinfoil through space! On the foil-like sail there will be sensor that beams information back to earth as well as controls the sail uses to move in space. In theory this in a really cool project.

And a really cool project is all this will ever be. I hate being a negger of science. However, the amount of money being poured into this NASA project is irresponsible considering it's a usual socialist NASA project doomed from the get-go. A bunch of whitecoats think lasers and tinfoil is the answer to space travel? And someone believed them?

The entire project rests on the idea that a thin metal sail can sustain inter-galaxy travel through multiple comet belts, with a single direction propulsion force (the laser). Because this was thought to be a good idea by some fat wallets, NASA gets to play with these solar sails in our outer atmosphere. I have to admit its probably a lot of fun to shoot lasers at a star sail, and I obviously don't know the details of this project, but I think there are plenty of fast moving pebbles in space to back me up on this one.

Have you ever tried sailing? It has to be really hard in space.