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Can you use a solar sail as a space brake for interstellar trips?
Let's say we toss 150 tons towards proxima centauri at 50% speed of light, as we get closer, could we use the stellar wind from Proxima to slow down in time for a capture?
Sounds like a complicated calculation...

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