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hunter

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2. Some difficulties with me "in regards to "willing suspension of disbelief."
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 06:21 PM
Oct 2015

But I sweat just as much with Gravity.

Nope, nobody is ever going to get me to do that sort of thing unless, maybe, I can save all humanity.

Hell, I even hate ordinary air travel. Me in a pressurized cigar tube with wings at 400+ miles per hour? No thanks.

Also, Mars atmosphere is much thinner than depicted. It's not going to blow over your transport, and it's not the sort of 0.60 kPa vacuum you can exclude with duct tape and plastic sheeting.

Pi-r-squared at even 5 p.s.i. pure oxygen atmosphere is some very formidable force on a ripped away airlock port.






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