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Is that equivalent to the 'rocket equation', where each tanker is analogous to another stage on the rocket? (You spend increasing amounts of fuel to get the fue
by gwern 7y ago
Is that equivalent to the 'rocket equation', where each tanker is analogous to another stage on the rocket? (You spend increasing amounts of fuel to get the fuel out to where it needs to be transferred in to be then burned.)
- mattkrause 7y agoSeems very similar to me, though the constraints are a bit different: you want the tankers back, presumably, but you also don't have to move all of it together