tfw when you do a radio interview about prospects for living on Mars and the interviewer concludes with “thanks for crushing my dreams”
MARS IS GREAT WE SHOULD TOTALLY GO it’s going to be really hard though I’M ALL FOR IT YAY MARS we’ll probably die RED PLANET OR BUST
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Replying to @AstroKatie
there's a big binary between chemical rockets and fusion propulsion; chemical rockets it's like payload is <1% it takes 2 years to get there and you can only launch every two years at the launch window if you have fusion you can get ~50% payload to mars in ~90 days ~whenever.
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Replying to @DanielleFong @AstroKatie
But why go to Mars? There are far more resources in the asteroid belt, and the lack of a gravity well makes exporting them much easier. Plus, waste is much easier to handle in space.
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In our hypothetical interplanetary Civ, we’d want that too, and mining asteroids might be the economic impetus to get it going. But planets are nice.
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