[Starlink] some post Starship launch thoughts

[Michael Richardson]

Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
    > Everyone wants a water deluge system and flame diverter, but I was
    > thinking perhaps liquid nitrogen, as a natural byproduct of LOX

Yeah, but how do you put one on the moon or mars?
Lower gravity helps, sure, ...

    > Landing and then taking off from the moon or mars look rather
    > problematic at the moment!

Do the rockets do the swoop and flip on mars and the moon?
This part I just don't understand.
(But then, the entire mars mission is fraught with dozens of missing things,
starting with radiation shielding)

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