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xuki
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stainablesteel
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launching things via a mass driver from the moon to the earth requires a lot less fuel, is faster, and cheaper than shipping across the ocean
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andai
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That one is subsidized by externalizing costs to our lungs.
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kibwen
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Shipping on water has been, by far, the cheapest mode of long-distance shipping since the moment boats were invented. That is to say, since thousands of years before boats were ever powered by the shit that destroys our lungs.
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sroussey
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So is pace travel. Then rockets are not green!
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