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I'd be happier if they measured their appendix by how much CO2 they are pumping out of the atmosphere.
by Jyaif 5y ago
I'd be happier if they measured their appendix by how much CO2 they are pumping out of the atmosphere.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoHow do you know they don’t? I think you meant to imply an inverse relationship.
- MrDresden 5y agoSpace launches account for negligible amount of the CO2 emissions at present time compared to the total that our society emits. There is obviously the very strong likelyhood that number of launches will continue to grow, to a point where this will become a major issue. There is however a financial incentive to lower the fuel consumption as much as possible in these rockets, which I believe will push these companies to do so. But only to a degree. Hopefully human kind will be able to use something akin to mass drivers or a space based gravity hook to launch loads without exhaust in the future. But in the meantime we will need to emit something.