someone could set up house on top of K2 more easily … okay maybe that’s a bit too far - ThreadSky

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rincewind.run • 4 days ago

someone could set up house on top of K2 more easily

… okay maybe that’s a bit too far

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sialnez.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wanna see the guy set up his „proving a point“ camp in the basement of Chernobyl Reactor 4

mjaum.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nope. K2 doesn’t need rockets. Rockets *blow* because they have to bring their own mass to push against. If we had *any other option* we’d throw the rockets away so quickly it’d be funny.

niq.aeli.net•4 days ago

…idk, I think K2 might hate us less than Mars’ gravity well does, do you know how many probes we’ve crashed?

bigbadbugsteak.bsky.social•4 days ago

the only way to be sure is to get k2 and olympus mons to fight it out

niq.aeli.net•4 days ago

(okay tbf that’s more the lack of atmosphere’s fault than the gravity well’s.)

jalf.dk•4 days ago

Not even the *lack* of atmosphere. Lack of atmosphere would have been preferable because then landers could ditch the heat shield. The thin weedy atmosphere is the worst. Not thick enough for unpowered landings with parachutes, but enough that you need a big heavy heatshield

6sidedgames.bsky.social•4 days ago

And then that one time we measured the descent in feet and programmed it in meters.

kathmarval.bsky.social•4 days ago

Came here to say this.
I never tire of telling this story. It was an unbelievably expensive error, but at least no one died of it.

jalf.dk•4 days ago

It has very little to do with the difficulty of landing on Mars though

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