I recently read about an idea to power rockets with solar energy, also known as “solar sails”. It made me wonder how practical this idea was given that solar thermal energy plants are in the experimental phase in Las Vegas. They basically use thousands of parabolic mirrors to focus sunlight on a central tower, which then runs a rankine power cycle.
Keplar originally proposed the idea of solar sails to navigate the solar system. In this idea, light from the sun basically propells a object without any need for external power. The math is somewhat theoretical, and with little practical data, but the sun can produce about 1.4 kW of power at a distance of 93 million miles away.

While seemingly random, perhaps the reason SunSpider fell out of Google's favor is because they recently decided to fork WebKit with Blink, set to debut in Chrome 28. The problem isn't just limited to searching for "sunspider", as it also includes "sunspider javascript test", and "sunspider benchmark", as none of the results contain the actual link to the 


















There are countless forums where you can get random people to calculate your chances of getting into certain colleges, but these aren’t accurate at all due to bias and inexperience of the forum members. Not only do you have to wait hours if not days for a response, but you also can’t get estimates at more than a few schools because it’d take too much time for someone to give you a free response.