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by JumpCrisscross
263 days ago
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> About a million pounds of kerosene per launch Quarter of a million pounds kerosene per Falcon 9. Zero for Starship, which burns methane. (And thus emits pure methane, CO2 and water vapor.) > the eventual need to clean up LOE to avoid Kessler Syndrome Not a thing. (Search this comment thread for the term. There are good answers on the current state of research.) |
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...but sure, for the sake of argument, maybe it's only a quarter million lbs of kerosene 50 times a year, upper atmospheric pollution, and LEO crowding that gets solved by HN comments. ...instead of a dumb cable that doesn't come with a side of funding a billionaire neo-nazi. My bad.