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Dude have a sense of perspective. It's like 20 acres arguably degraded. Louisiana melts that much coastline into the Gulf of [Whatever] every ~hour~[1]. In e
by bpodgursky 2y ago
Dude have a sense of perspective. It's like 20 acres arguably degraded. Louisiana melts that much coastline into the Gulf of [Whatever] every ~hour~[1].
In exchange for being the world leader in spaceflight.
There aren't like, vast stretches of unprotected coastline they can pick from. It's ALL either protected or densely populated. If you want ANY spaceflight, you have to give somewhere, and this is essentially the only place in the continental US that works. If you say "not good enough" for Boca Chica, you're saying "no rockets can be developed in the continental US". Just be honest.
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- zimpenfish 2y ago> Louisiana melts that much coastline (20 acres) into the Gulf of [Whatever] every hour. From [0], "The coast here loses a football field of land every 90 minutes." An American football field is about 111% of an acre[1] which means, unless there's been a radical spike since 2021, you're off by ~19.2 acres or ~17.3 football fields an hour (if my calculation hasn't gone wrong.) [0] https://earth.org/data_visualization/louisiana-shrinking-coastline/ https://earth.org/data_visualization/louisiana-shrinking-coa... [1] https://huffsports.com/football/how-many-football-fields-in-an-acre/ https://huffsports.com/football/how-many-football-fields-in-...
- bpodgursky 2y agoOK. Sure. Louisiana melts that much coastline into the Gulf every day. I don't think this changes my thesis.
- kelnos 2y ago"$X is worse than $Y so we shouldn't bother trying to fix $Y." Invalid logic, pleas try again.