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Re:Powering the Lunar Base by blake1 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:33PM (#28102851)
So ~5T/person/year, let's plug in the Starship launch costs: at $1mn/T, this is only $500mn/year for the whole base. This seems a little too good to be true.
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Re:Powering the Lunar Base by tsimionescu on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:07AM (#28104338)
The Starship promised launch cost is literally two orders of magnitude smaller than current launch costs. I would start there.
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