Oddly enough when the process was demonstrated by French scientists in the 1800s they did it in space, so the earth has yet to see this advanced technology.
MrSpArkle
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We have flown this experiment on the ISS. It is a chemical process that is over 100 years old and is well understood.
It’s also the only way to lift any significant mass off of mars, because as you said we have no manufacturing or refueling there. So the rocket must refuel itself.
It then follows that if Mars is the next major target of exploration, and methane is cheap and abundant, why not get started now? The alternative is to spend a decade qualifying an engine for human space flight after the green light for a crewed mission.
Correct. It’s called the Sabatier reaction and it’s over 100 years old.
Importantly they use methane because you can generate methane on Mars(especially if you bring some spare hydrogen).
Fuck Schweikert. He’s almost never voted for more taxes. Just a clown running cover for the destruction of the federal government.
You’re actually right. Newsmax is still beholden to the law and has been taken to task over their bullshit.
The troubling thing is that this is Trump signaling the right wing media that it’s ok to go even harder.
Definitely later. Taiwan can sink half of China’s fleet and bomb many of their major cities with their current mix of weapon stockpiles.
If China invaded now they would suffer immensely.
When they’re rich they just let you do it.
I would argue Trump has great business acumen for exactly the reasons you describe.
He’s a mobster who got rich off strong arming, manipulation, and fraud.
Stop assuming his incompetence at being an evil capitalist billionaire and maybe people will finally accept that he is a highly capable amoral danger to the world.
This story is accurate save for what it is omitting: There is a rising trend of genocidal speech amongst black South Africans towards Afrikaners.
People are calling for the wholesale slaughter of white people, down to the last baby, they are doing this to the cheers of thousands at rallies across the country.
Black politicians are calling for white blood in the halls of government.
Even if you believe turn about is fair play vis a vie genocide, one could easily make the case for giving refugee status to Afrikaners, even while acknowledging the issue is being used as racist virtue signaling.
An instance full of toxic tankies who spam and brigade as their hobby. Nobody liked them except some tankies on lemmy.ml.
Are you being obtuse or do you have a point? A Sabatier reactor has flown on the ISS, so they exist clearly. Audi had a pilot plant producing methane using this method as recently as 10 years ago.
It's obvious the technology exists, and has been tested in space, and is viable on mars according to numerous studies dating back from the 80s to current day.
Do you have any proof to the contrary? I'm a huge space nerd so if there's a fatal flaw in this plan I'd like to know.