Land like a plane, parachute, or thrusters... each has it’s problems. I guess there’s no easy way to fall down a gravity well, and no cheap way to climb out. They make it look so easy on The Expanse.
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This is one reason that I think the people who colonize other planets are going to be mostly weird cults. Everyone else is going to be like, “I just got out of the damn gravity well, and now you want me to go back?!?” Core civ will be in free space & asteroids, not planets.
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At 15,000 ft:
"Oh hey ya know what can you just let me out here, nah you don't need to take me all the way, ts'aright I got my own 'chute."






