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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 02:33:34 JST Nowhere Girl

   The US already has a functional super heavy rocket that recently did a successful moon flyby without exploding or doing excessive environmental damage (because they used proper and time tested mitigation efforts) so the weird Musk / SpaceX fanboys can get over themselves.

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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 02:33:34 JST Nowhere Girl

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     There is no great rush to develop these vehicles. Mars will still be there by the next best launch windows in 2035 and 2050.

     I'm more concerned with shit on Earth right now.

     Thomas 🔭🕹️ repeated this.
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     Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 02:33:34 JST Nowhere Girl

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     I highly doubt we'll land humans on Mars in my lifetime anyway, let alone Elon Musk's. Mars sucks. It's hard to get there, it's hard to land, it's lethal, it's expensive, and it's largely pointless except to say we did it.

     A robotic sample return mission is far cheaper and more useful.

     Sorry not sorry.