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Re:The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth abo... by ceejayoz on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:22PM (#25996451)
I mean, they're both 200 foot long tubes full of fuel that gets used up by the end of the flight. Only so much carbon you can fit into a set volume.
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Re:The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth abo... by hulahoof on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:50PM (#25996600)
Agreed, though without considering it as such if someone asked me to compare to an airliner I would have placed it between 10-100x the emissions, and would not have been surprised at more!
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Re:The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth abo... by bodhiandphysics on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:00PM (#25997003)
Remember 3/4 of the rocket is just the oxygen for combustion!
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