In article <MPG.141e35b960a36cdc9897b5@news.povray.org>, 
jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom (Jamie Davison) wrote:

> Erm, Solar sails aren't really massively steerable, unless you can find 
> another source of light pressure to fly away from.  So you fly from star 
> to star, hoping to god that you get your exit vector right in order to 
> get to the next one...

If you stay within a solar system and don't reach escape velocity, you 
can just use the gravity of the sun or the nearest convenient planet to 
turn around. I don't know how useful solar sails would be outside solar 
systems.

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