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I’ll bet they never tried it with out-of-date carbon fibre! That’d save a lot of cash.
“There’s a rule, you’re not supposed to build crewed Venus probes out of carbon fibre. Well, we did.”
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I mean, the liquid oxygen fueled cars or clothes alone (no burning, just some pressure let off into motive power and air conditioning plus the exhaust is oxygen) are compelling.
It would be nice to have a process to make carbon fiber that just stripped the hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen (sulfur, boron…careful what to ask for) without burning too. Just the nice regenerative laser that did the virtual photon and grabbed it back in full or better for next run.
You will emphatically not have access to the surface.
The 80-mile long launchmi-squishyu bain-marie can wait until longer extents of exploration. Or, the 1000 rich people gamely suited could have their consciousnesses (sic. should have been misspelled) transferred into something that likes it around 900 deg. C and pressing but also flattish and caustic. Start with things Apple says don’t recycle. Maybe make the hydraulic press and not overthink it as you ship the first teaser units of the more 2-dimensional Nier Automata Settlers of Catan; see who springs for the time reversible hull feature.
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They were lucky, they could have gone to Slough (of Despond) to visit the factory the first UK astronaut worked at.
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Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That’s over 150 atmospheres of pressure!
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it’s a space ship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.
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