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   Simon π man ⚛️ 🧬 🧫 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (enmodo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:40:47 JST Simon π man ⚛️ 🧬 🧫 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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   @elonjet how does that compare to a typical SpaceX launch of another batch of Starlink datellites?

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:40:47 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #Emissions #GlobalWatming #CarbonFootprint #SpaceTourism

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     Cannot be answered correctly yet, but...

     "As a ballpark, one researcher has suggested that per person, a #space #tourism flight is 50-100 times worse for the atmosphere than a long-distance #plane flight."

     Because:
     "This is compounded by the altitude the gases are emitted at – a recent preprint (not peer-reviewed) study suggests that...

     https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/greenhouse-gas-space-x/

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     Elon Musk's Jet (elonjet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:40:48 JST Elon Musk's Jet

     Landed near Los Angeles, California, United States. Apx. flt. time 3 h 5 min.

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     Elon Musk's Jet (elonjet@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:40:48 JST Elon Musk's Jet

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     1,242 mile (1,079 NM) flight from AUS to LAX

     ~ 1,553 gallons (5,879 liters).
     ~ 10,408 lbs (4,721 kg) of jet fuel used.
     ~ $8,696 cost of fuel.
     ~ 16 tons of CO2 emissions.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 18:41:25 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     #Emissions #GlobalWatming #CarbonFootprint #SpaceTourism

     ...0.22% of the upper #stratospheric #ozone could be lost from three years of space tourism, 👉which could “substantially offset” the progress done by the #MontrealProtocol.👈"

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