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From: Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com>
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Subject: Re: "Elon Musk is aiming for SpaceX's Starship to reach Mars very
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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...
>>>
>>> Got food for the return trip and a place to put human waste ?  Oxygen 
>>> and a way to get rid of the excess CO2 ?
>>
>> 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.