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If you pick a low enough orbit, it gives you a lot of freedom to use a lightweight launch vehicle such as a stepladder.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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If you pull the Moon closer to the Earth, gravity will begin to disintegrate it and shred it into kwazillion asteroids that eventually become meteors which will bombard the Earth back to the lava age. Once that is done, the moon doesn’t exist and there’s no need to go to the moon ever again. Problem solved.
50 billion birds with one stone kinda solution
LOL. Just need a bigger stone.
Kurzgesagt did a really well done video on this. And the soundtrack is amazing too.
just build a stronger moon
Theres a book about that called seveneves