So.. I finally pledged to a project on Kickstarter.

I pledged to LightSail, which is a light sail (duh) experiment for using photonic pressure as spacecraft propulsion.



It's looking for $200,000 and is currently at $86,000 with 44 days remaining.

So much of your new car then?

I plan on putting a lightsail on my new car.

Or maybe I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program.

BTW, the project funded. It's now going on to stretch goals.

That is really cool. Very happy that it got funded already, and looks like they will easily reach the 1 million stretch goal.

Very tempted to put some money in, although it's been a financially rough month. Then again, I basically would want my name in space and that's only 5 dollars so...

Is it me or does that Bill Nye fella look awfully familiar?

He's Bill Nye "The Science Guy". I think he had a tv show in the US for promoting science, which got him notoriety. He moved on from there to being more of a spokesperson. He had a televised debate with a rabid creationist within the last year or two, among other things. He's like a white and dorkier version of Neil deGrasse Tyson.

BTW, a Lightsail test rig was launched into space today. It's not a full test (that's for next year) but it's getting various data they'll use for whatever sciencey purposes they have.