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The danger of launch failure making the planet uninhabitable.
by ant6n 6y ago
The danger of launch failure making the planet uninhabitable.
- notatoad 6y agolol, good point. that's the sort of thing that's easy to forget about when your involvement on a topic is limited to typing out comments on HN.
- choeger 6y agoHow do you imagine that would happen? Even if a rocket fails catastrophically, pulverizing the nuclear waste, distributing it evenly across earth, how do you imagine that would make the planet inhabitable? Is the planet inhabitable now, after all the atomic bombs that exploded and all the nuclear waste that went into the ocean? And what do you think drives the latest Mars rover, Perseverance?