Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:WDWEISMAN@JPL-MILVAX.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:WDWEISMAN@JPL-MILVAX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Solar Sailing Info. Message-ID: <941@topaz.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 22:35:03 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.941 Posted: Mon Mar 11 22:35:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Mar-85 00:13:57 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 From: WEISMAN, WILLIAM D. In response to the inquiry about solar sailing, you might want to check out the short story "The Fourth Profession" by Larry Niven (I'm not at home, so I may have the title wrong - corrections?) Its about aliens called the Monks who decelerate into the solar system using a light-sail-equipped ship. Bill W. ------