Indeed but there have been some very big solar panels unfolded, the spacestations people put up there had some huge ones, although some of those had some issues unfolding too, you'd think that over 30 years they figured out what to look out for and make it work, but I guess they just keep having fresh engineers that start from scratch. And I guess the thinness and low mass of the sails don't help if they already have trouble with panels. On the plus side, perhaps once they get it right we get some newfangled umbrellas as spin-off, space umbrellas.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Indeed but there have been some very big solar panels unfolded, the spacestations people put up there had some huge ones, although some of those had some issues unfolding too, you'd think that over 30 years they figured out what to look out for and make it work, but I guess they just keep having fresh engineers that start from scratch. And I guess the thinness and low mass of the sails don't help if they already have trouble with panels.
On the plus side, perhaps once they get it right we get some newfangled umbrellas as spin-off, space umbrellas.