• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    you need about 18000km/s delta V to go from Earth’s surface to Mars’s surface.

    A mentos+coke gets about a couple meters per second delta V.

    no, you cannot use 18 million bottles, because of the rocket equation

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      no, you cannot use 18 million bottles

      Not with that attitude, you can’t!

      because of the rocket equation

      “Equation esmation!”

      – whichever idiot Trump is undoubtedly about to appoint as head of NASA regardless of whether or not he is legally authorized to do so