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Robert Zubrin's Mars Gashopper Airplane

Posted by michael on from the boing-boing dept.

Fraser Cain writes "Universe Today has a story about Robert Zubrin's (Mars Society President) Martian Gashopper Aircraft proposal to NASA. It uses solar power to liquefy carbon dioxide and then use it as a propellant to take off, fly hundreds of km above the surface of Mars like an airplane, and then land vertically again."

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  1. Re:Physics Buttons by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Troll

    And then the smart guys invented nuclear weapons, and you lived in fear for the rest of your life. Joke's on you. And your kids. And your grand kids. Don't pick on the smart kid. Pick on someone whose capacity for imaginative revenge is limited to mailing dog poop.

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