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Regular tourism is far worse.
by schnebbau 5y ago
Regular tourism is far worse.
- cdmckay 5y agoRegular tourism is bad, but rocket tourism is a new kind of bad because it puts pollutants in the upper atmosphere and we really don't know what the effects of that will be. Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-air-pollution-is-produced-by-rockets/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-air-poll...
- bryanlarsen 5y agoNew Shepard doesn't use solid fuel. Its exhaust is water.
- cinntaile 5y agoIn absolute numbers you're right because millions of people are tourists compared to a few wealthy space tourists. But that's a strange metric to use, the space tourists are part of the regular tourist group as well. If we compare energy usage per tourist the numbers will be stacked against space tourism.