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Re:The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth abo... by blhack on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:38PM (#25996103)
About 8.4 car seconds of fuel.

Data: Us burns about 390,000,000 gallons of gas per day.

SpaceX Falcon9 uses about 38,000 gallons of RP-1.

390000000/86400 = 4513 (gallons per second of fuel in the US).

38,000/4500 = 8.4 seconds.

On the day this launches, it will represent about 0.0097% of the fuel used for that day in the US.

There are about 280 cars in this photo: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/ibimg/hgm/450x253-1/100/226/parking-...

If you printed out this image 40 times, you could delete ONE car from this image for one day. That's the difference that this launch will make.

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Re:The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth abo... by Bedon292 on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:57PM (#25996987)
This caused me to look up largest parking lots. You can fit approximately that many cars in the parking lots at Disney in Florida on any given day (11k+ spots). Though I don't know how full they actually get.
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