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Posted by Derek Lyons on February 26, 2008, 6:56 pm
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>>>If you take interplanetary travel into consideration, then anything on
>>>the equator has cheapest access to earth orbit.
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>> But the difference isn't really all that much.
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>>>You also want an east coast where you can use the ocean as a saftey
>>>buffer.
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>> You can also launch to the west.
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>Only if you add two extra stages to the launch rocket, plus lots of extra
>shielding to counteract the small particles of disintegrated satellites
>moving in orbit the opposite direction. All that stuff reduces payload to
>the vanishing point.
Right - and what bad SF novel did you get that information from?
D.
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> imagined utopian world state where all nations are equal?