• MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    yes i can believe that at some point in the future we might look at burning rocket fuel to take water and dump it on Mars as not having been a good use of earth’s resources.

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      1 year ago

      Mars rovers are literally a rounding error in terms of our uses of earth’s resources. Any honest accounting in the future is probably going to be way more critical of wasteful practices that actually account for large percentages of resource usage.

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      1 year ago

      Once methalox engines are the norm, we will be able to make fuel from CO2 and H2O, both of which we have more than enough of.