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Majestic_Pitch_1803 t1_jd9opzh wrote

Heavier to launch all that stuff and have it accelerate to such speeds

You have to get rid of radioactive waste sure. But surely that rock is no more radioactive that most other rock

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Postnificent t1_jd9pod7 wrote

Ships like the ones you are speaking of must be built in orbit, we don’t have the technology to launch them without them coming apart yet.

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