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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by lettergram on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:51AM (#38264774)
You can literally throw rocks to earth at 1/36 the cost to leave earth. The rocks would then naturally fall to earth.

Missiles have to be launched and require much more acceleration to reach the moon and leave earths gravity.

To put it into perspective, imagine the moon can catapult 5000 massive rocks at earth every day. Earth can’t make that many missiles fast enough

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Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend by simonh on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:19AM (#38265294)
As against launching the thousands of nukes you already have right here on Earth, and hitting your targets within minutes. I suppose if you want to wipe out your opponents 100x over veeeery slowly rather than just 10x over in lunch time.
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