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Confucious would reply: When the wise man builds an incredible machine that can bring us to the Moon, the fool looks at the bags of feces. More seriously, bec
by duchenne 7y ago
Confucious would reply:
When the wise man builds an incredible machine that can bring us to the Moon, the fool looks at the bags of feces.
More seriously, because of the rocket equation, bringing more payload back would require a lot more fuel. Bringing this additional fuel to the Moon would also require even more fuel.
The Saturn rocket is still the biggest rocket ever made. Probably, the engineers back then did not want to make an even bigger one just to bring back the bags.
- dogma1138 7y agoEven if they built a larger rocket it would be better to pack more people, experiments or bring back more samples than poop. We got enough poop on earth, the bacteria would die due to UV and hard vacuum you could even decontaminate the left overs before chugging them out of the window on your way back home if you want to be extra careful.