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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by mulmen on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:33PM (#27897438)
How do rockets eliminate car traffic at the destination? Every proposal for rocket transport I have seen basically puts an airport outside of town, so the traffic is a wash, no?
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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by jedberg on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:27PM (#27898111)
When I arrive in space I don't need a car to get around, and even if I did, the pollution wouldn't affect the Earth. :)
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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by mulmen on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:31PM (#27898160)
Ohh, ha! I thought you meant replacing flights directly to Earth destinations. So instead of taking a 787 from Seattle to Taipei I would take a Starship.

Yes, there are environmental benefits to putting the actual destination in space, I hadn’t really considered that.

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