If you're talking about Starlink, those are self clearing orbits. Anything without propulsion clears in VLEO/LEO from 3 months to 3 years. Hence why those satellites have ion thrusters. The issue is higher orbits, where they are not self clearing.

Ok so supplementary question: assuming a mars ship would be modular construction assembled on earth orbit… what have we learned from the ISS that would be done differently?

„Only“ 300??? My dream to one day capture a planet like this just became real again!

This looks amazing! Do you have any captured of Saturn yet?

🎶 together they learn to read and write

I read 7/8ths of it. Once the time jump happened, it didn't even seem like the same book and I couldn't get invested in why I should care about that act of the story considering how few pages were left in the book. I just kind of set it down and never picked it back up.

Ion thrusters exist, sure, but their thrust is so minimal I doubt you'd be able to overcome Earth's gravity in any reasonable time, if at all.

If you don't think the current generation will see humans on Mars, you're in the minority.

Legend says Ed Harris is still up there waiting for Truman

many ancient people thought them to be holy and either deified them or used the metals in metalworking like with Tut's dagger. nobody touched them on the north pole cause no one lived there

"and the moon blows up" XD

Good book

Whatever profit is to be made will not be enjoyed by those who start this kind of work. They will be long dead. The initial cost of this work would be in the trillions.

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Shit, when was NASA gonna warn us if the impending collision???

Geez op. You been sitting on this for that long???

And the humanity that colonizes another celestial body will bear little resemblance to us.

Don’t ion thrusters deliver weak but long thrust?

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Make SpaceX pay for it. They're filling up orbit with thousands of pieces of trash.

Ha cool, someone already wrote a book about my fantasy!

I meant I never heard of "For All Mankind" before today. Heat transfer equations I understand :)

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Or a highly incentivized profit....

Humanity today bears little resemblance to what it was 10,000 years ago.

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The aperture of the telescope is 102mm which means i have 1000mm to reach objects in the sky. I shot the moon at 6pm while the sun was still high in the sky, that's why I used 1/200. I have a 75-300mm lens, and shooting at 300mm doesn't let you come close to the moon so i am not sure if you can have a nice photo of the moon with 200mm, BUT... you can use those 2.8 to do deep sky photography