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We've previously covered the Lightsail projects tribulations... Now there is better news.
Washington Post reports:
Since launching on May 20, the Planetary Society's solar sail prototype -- called LightSail and inspired by an idea Carl Sagan championed decades ago -- hasn't exactly had smooth seas.
A glitch made the tiny satellite holding the folded sail unreachable from Earth for a time. Even after communications were re-established, it took days to get the spacecraft to do the one thing it was sent up to do -- deploy its sail, proving that a propulsion system thinner than human hair could be packed away and unfurled safely in space.
On June 7, the Planetary Society reports, the sail finally unfurled.
Original announcement straight from Planetary Society can be found here.
Original Submission
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:44PM
Watch out, people! Take cover!
Another shitty, biased submission from gewg_ has been detected in the queue: "SWAT Team Destroys Man's Home with Explosives, Ram in Pursuit of Shoplifter"
Yep, it's yet another shitty submission linking to AlterNet.
It's also riddled with "[...]". It's never a good sign when a submission so selectively picks and chooses content like that. It makes intelligent readers question why so much manipulation is taking place.
Do the right thing, editors. Toss that rubbish submission into the rubbish bin!
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:50PM
So, you go to another thread to post offtopic ranting about it. Thus drawing more attention to it.
Uh. Why do I suspect that you're actually gewg_ doing some advertising for your post?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:58PM
Meta discussion about Soylent News and pending submissions is on-topic in any and every topic. Anyone who mods down such discussion has moderated abusively.
Obviously the point is to draw attention to that submission. That way the editors can throw it out right away, without risking such shit ending up on the front page, like has happened so often recently.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @10:35PM
I suspect that you're actually gewg_ doing some advertising for your post
Careful, now. You're giving me ideas. 8-)
...and the submission in question has as key points EXPLOSIVES and A BATTERING RAM.
You don't even have to buy a theater ticket or look in TV Guide!
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Wednesday June 10 2015, @06:30PM
"EXPLOSIVES and A BATTERING RAM. You don't even have to buy a theater ticket "
So... You're saying you're really Michael Bay in disguise? Who'da thunk it. ;)
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 09 2015, @06:10PM
You've got the hots for gewg_, right? I don't know which way he swings. Do you want me to ask him for you? I've got a better idea though. If you make better submissions than he does, you'll catch his attention, along with his envy and admiration. And, all the rest of us can sit around and watch your bromance develop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @06:15PM
What's with all of the homoeroticism here? Why can't we discuss astronomy without people like you bringing sodomy and penises into the discussion?
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Tuesday June 09 2015, @09:27PM
The original poster struck me as kind of an asshole though, so he's obviously male*, but to be fair, I assume none of us actually know whether gewg_ is male or female.
* I read that on tumblr.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @10:51PM
I've mentioned before [soylentnews.org] that I'm male.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 09 2015, @06:47PM
Why don't you go through the editor training to learn how they do it, then you can put in some time as an editor yourself to make the articles better.
Or you can scour the internet to find better submissions for the queue.
It's just that easy.
Washington DC delenda est.