How much energy does it take to lift a squirrel on a solar sail?
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1. Eat Snickers. 2. Feel Satisfied 3. Unwrap Solar Sail. 4. Wrap Squirrel in Solar Sail into a soccer shaped ball. 5. Punt Squirrel. 6. Measure Distance. 7. Call and report your findings to PETA. 8. Eat another Snickers.
With the low end of human muscle efficiency in the conversion of energy into power. Ideally you'd be able to fire the little beastie ~63km off the energy of a snickers.