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Can you push a spacecraft with light?

Season 1 Episode 14

What if you could power a ship using sunlight instead of wind? Well in space, you can! Solar sails or light sails are pushed with light from the sun.

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4:36
Do Mars moons, or Jupiter moons causes total solar eclipses?
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8:23
What is perfect pitch, or absolute pitch? Can it be learned?
Mantis Shrimp Punch at 40,000 fps! - Cavitation Physics
6:14
The mantis shrimp punch is fast enough to boil water!
Strange Unexplained Cosmic Rays (ft PhD Comics)
6:57
Cosmic rays are particles from space.
This crystal can split light particles
6:05
How unusual non-linear crystals can entangle particles of light, or photons.
MIND-BOGGLING HIKER RIDDLE ft Anne Wojcicki
3:53
I ask Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe to answer some logic and physics riddles.
NEW RESULTS! Cosmic Quantum Bell Test
10:32
How do you test quantum mechanics with ancient stars?
Zero G Ferrofluid Fail - (ft. e-penser & Veritasium)
10:48
The zero g plane, also known as a parabolic flight, or the vomit comet
Why outlets spark when unplugging - EMF & Inductors
6:30
Not mean to be tried at home!
Oxygen is magnetic?!
5:20
Liquid oxygen has unusual magnetic properties.
Can you solve the $20 riddle? ft SMBC Comics' Zach Weinersmi
10:31
I sit down with Zach Weinersmith from SMBC comics to ask him some physics trivia and logic
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