are always billowing clouds of fire and smoke. Doesn't it require air pressure to cause those roiling shapes? What should it look like, a fleeting sphere of convection distortion/magnification?
Seems unnecessary ... or is it?
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I really want to be enthusiastic about this so, please, someone help me see the justification here.
If this is a step toward Mars and/or permanent presence then why wouldn't a platform at one of the lagrange points, or other stable but high orbit be a more worthwhile effort than (literally) sinking resources into another gravity well albeit 1/6th of Earth's?
It may not be a space race but still seems like grandstanding to me.
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are always billowing clouds of fire and smoke. Doesn't it require air pressure to cause those roiling shapes? What should it look like, a fleeting sphere of convection distortion/magnification?
...and were suddenly silenced.
I really want to be enthusiastic about this so, please, someone help me see the justification here. If this is a step toward Mars and/or permanent presence then why wouldn't a platform at one of the lagrange points, or other stable but high orbit be a more worthwhile effort than (literally) sinking resources into another gravity well albeit 1/6th of Earth's? It may not be a space race but still seems like grandstanding to me.