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Bargearse
Nov 27, 2006

🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.
I'd sign up for any kind of space mission in a heartbeat.

I also don't lose too much sleep over the fact that barring a massive surge of public interest or some new technology that brings launch costs down to a fraction of the current going rate, it's pretty unlikely to happen.

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Elukka
Feb 18, 2011

For All Mankind

Tenzarin posted:

No cool space stuff will ever happen in till some form of a space elevator is created and mastered, bottom line. Outside of anything that isn't some free energy gravity engine don't expect launching large ships from earth will ever be possible.
Rockets work just fine and space elevators might not even be possible. Rockets might even be preferable for large payloads even if you somehow had a space elevator.

Bargearse
Nov 27, 2006

🛑 Don't get your pen🖊️, son, you won't be 👌 needing that 😌. My 🥡 order's 💁 simple😉, a shitload 💩 of dim sims 🌯🀄. And I want a bucket 🪣 of soya sauce☕😋.
Air-breathing rocket engines probably aren't that far off, anyway.

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