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If you break you neck in LEO you could be in a real hospital in a few hours. From the moon it's a couple days, comparable to like an arctic base dueing a storm.
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
If you break you neck in LEO you could be in a real hospital in a few hours. From the moon it's a couple days, comparable to like an arctic base dueing a storm.
From Mars your family will only get ashes because your body will have been deconposing for months.
There is steel, aluminium and oxygen on the moon,'it can host heavy indstry and peoduce ships, space stations, equipment. It can host a space elevator today,'made of normal kevlar. You could build an aircraft carrier and lift it into orbit.
- drevil-v2 4y ago> You could build an aircraft carrier and lift it into orbit No you can’t. You still need to spend the same amount of energy per ton to escape earth’s gravity. An elevator does not magically violate laws of physics Edit: As pointed out below I probably misunderstood the comment I was replying too. My bad
- c22 4y agoThe comment you're responding to is suggesting a space elevator on the moon, so you only need enough energy to escape the moon's gravity.
- throwaway777845 4y ago[dead]
- moloch-hai 4y agoI know somebody who broke his neck in Antarctica and was airlifted out. He's fine now.
- frontman1988 4y agohow does one manage to break their neck in Antarctica?
- moloch-hai 4y agoAll it took was not watching where he was walking. There are hazards outside. Concrete, railings, and painted lines are scarce.
- bratbag 4y agoSo no different than if you broke your neck during the age of discovery on earth? We shouldn't be judging these things by the standards of generally risk averse people on this discussion board. It won't be people like us going.
- gibspaulding 4y agoThe difference today is that the astronaut with the broken neck would be front page news for every minute of the hours/days/weeks it took to get them home, and far longer if they die. Bad press is bad for funding, especially in a democratic country.
- kwhitefoot 4y ago> the astronaut with the broken neck would be front page news for every minute of the hours/days/weeks Only while the thing is rare.
- im3w1l 4y agoA brave explorer dying the martyr death to advance humanity. Give him a hero's funeral and give generous pensions to his relatives. Suddenly it sounds like a sales pitch. Well, to some.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago> It won't be people like us going. Is it gonna be disposable lower-class people? In age of doscovery shipowners and governments assumed a 50% death rate from scurvy for their sailors on a major voyage. TThe past is fireign land, executions were a public holiday and children came to watch. We used to gove cocaine to children to stop them crying.
- mlindner 4y ago> Is it gonna be disposable lower-class people? This meme comes from people who've watched too many bad sci-fi shows and don't have a good grasp of history. The people going to space will be the intersection of those who can afford it and those who want and are capable of going. The first people who traveled the oceans were not the lower class. They were the upper class who could afford to fund or pay for the journey by pooling money or independently pay for it. The poor you refer to didn't come until much later in the age of discovery.
- m4rtink 4y agoMany inland Antarctic bases are effectively unreachable for months in Winter. Flying a plane to the station in total darkness many thousand of kilometres in -80 C is a good way to end up with more people killed than you are trying to save.