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Anonymous Tue 04 May 19:16:43 2021 No.13076238 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13076428 >>13076459 >>13076532 >>13078344 >>13079224

>horrible weather
>regular hurricanes
why dont they just launch from fucking Nevada or something? I really dont get it.

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 19:49:25 No.13076412 Report

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Florida is the greatest state in the union.

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 19:50:28 No.13076424 Report

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if a stage fails it will crush a field of corn
which is unacceptable

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 19:50:52 No.13076428 Report

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>>13076238
Is /Sci/ the ultimate midwit board?

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 19:56:26 No.13076459 Report

Quoted By: >>13076627

>>13076238
Rockets generally need to launch eastward to get a boost from the Earth's rotation. You want to launch from where there's nothing below you to the east. Even a state with low population like Nevada has more people and infrastructure below than the ocean does.

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 19:59:36 No.13076481 Report

Quoted By: >>13076627

I know it's a troll thread, but rockets have to be launched from below the 23rd parallel to efficiently reach the Moon and to get the maximum benefit of the Coriolis Effect.

Yes, Americunts don't know this, generally speaking.

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 20:07:07 No.13076532 Report

Quoted By: >>13077078 >>13078628

>>13076238
wonder if a Hawaiian launchpad would work

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 20:32:32 No.13076627 Report

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>>13076459
>>13076481
>troll thread
OP here, no im actually retarded. Thanks for explaining btw, it makes sense now.

>>13076428
always been

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 21:49:09 No.13076991 Report

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>>13076627
Lurk 2 years before posting

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 22:10:26 No.13077078 Report

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>>13076532
It could but Hawaii doesn't have the industrial base for a spaceport. Everything could be brought in. That's what the Navy does for their operations there but that's worth the cost for what having a mid-Pacific base means for them. For space programs, easy access to the continental industrial base and labor pool is far more valuable than avoiding occasional bad weather.

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Anonymous Tue 04 May 2021 22:12:19 No.13077088 Report

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>>13077078
iirc Navy uses Guam for their space shit cause it's even further south

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 00:08:27 No.13077620 Report

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>>13076424
Or a city, or a town, or....

East of Florida is just the Bahamas, and nobody fucking cares about them.

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 03:50:21 No.13078344 Report

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>>13076238
Space program stuff was relocated to the south so Johnson could placate them with jobs and industry in exchange for the civil rights act

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 05:29:27 No.13078628 Report

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>>13076532
Then we'd have the same problem as the euros having to schlep all their stuff across the ocean instead of cheap rail and intercosal waterway transport to florida, which is actually a really good launch site.

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Anonymous Wed 05 May 2021 10:22:17 No.13079224 Report

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>>13076238
you want to be as close to equator as possible (for orbital mechanics reasons)
so that's either Florida or right by the Mexican border

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