Sometimes the most radical ideas hide in plain sight. Imagine an aircraft smaller than a dime, featherlight, with no propellers, no solar panels, and no engines—yet capable of rising into the sky powered entirely by the heat of the sun. No fuel tanks. No batteries. Just geometry, light, and physics conspiring to lift human curiosity higher than ever before. These tiny flyers are the beginning of an entirely new class of vehicles: machines that sip energy from the environment itself and drift into unexplored frontiers.
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