Re: "Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very soon"

On 9/10/2024 8:50 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 09/09/2024 16.46, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 9/9/2024 5:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/9/2024 3:24 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

 

I suppose it's also possible to miss Mars by an inch, fly around it and return to Earth. It worked when flying to the Moon (at least for the Baltimore Gun Club), so surely it will work with Mars...

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Got food for the return trip and a place to put human waste ?  Oxygen and a way to get rid of the excess CO2 ?

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I am sure Baltimore Gun Club members will be happy to offer suggestions. (Hopefully they won't make the same kind of math mistake that they made in the third volume of the series.)

 I never realized that there was a third.

You are not missing much. Like a number of other "late Verne" works, it's dark and bitter. The math error is implausible in the extreme.