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Minutes, seconds, can make all the difference in some cases. Months? We're fucked.
by ChoHag 10y ago
Minutes, seconds, can make all the difference in some cases.
Months? We're fucked.
- jacquesm 10y agoWhat kind of manned missions do you have in mind?
- ChoHag 10y agoThat's the point: we may not know until we have days or hours remaining to achieve them.
- exDM69 10y agoAs far as I know, there's no party on earth who could execute a space mission on one month notice. And such a mission would have very little capabilities due to poor preparation time. Whatever doomsday scenario you are concerned about, it's not a realistic goal.
- manarth 10y agoAnd an impending catastrophe so urgent that it needed an immediate launch would be unlikely to leave Russia or China unaffected, so any breakdown in relations would be quickly put aside for the sake of [deflecting meteors/fighting alien invaders/saving the moon from being eaten by a giant space shark].
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoSounds like a movie plot. This thread was going so well up top.
- jcoffland 10y agoEither Russia or China could if properly motivated.
- exDM69 10y agoNo, I very much doubt that. If there was a launch vehicle and space craft ready and waiting for integration, it would take about a month to get it on the pad and launched. But there aren't any spare rockets lying around like that. And we're talking about a standard LEO mission, not a doomsday scenario one off special mission.
- ChoHag 10y agoI think you underestimate the ability of the Slavs to Get Shit Done. Do you know why they beat you into space? It certainly wasn't because they had a head start.
- ChoHag 10y agoI love the idea of knowing exactly which failure scenarios are incoming. Your universe sounds fun. Can I join?