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To: Red Badger

How about the top of Mt Everest or Mt McKinley? Or is that not enough to matter?


4 posted on 10/07/2019 7:51:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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Too cold......................


11 posted on 10/07/2019 7:58:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: cuban leaf

How about the top of Mt Everest or Mt McKinley?

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Are there roads and utilities going to the tops of those mountains?


12 posted on 10/07/2019 8:10:25 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: cuban leaf
How about the top of Mt Everest or Mt McKinley? Or is that not enough to matter?

If you could get Pele's and Poli'ahu's buy-in, Mauna Kea.

It's near the equator, so you get the best boost from Earth's rotation, at 13,803 ft above sea level, it is the highest point in the state of Hawai'i, so it's above the thickest part of the atmosphere. Plenty of open water for boosters (or failed launch debris) to splash down in in all directions, ability to launch polar orbits and a nice slope for a rail based launch to boot. And it's uncontested US territory.

22 posted on 10/07/2019 8:30:34 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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