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Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch is working with Alibaba's online shopping platform Taobao to make reusable rockets for express deliveries that could arrive globally in an hour. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 5 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can we all get on the same page that this is pretty dumb no matter who pitches it? I don't need the equivalent of ICBMs but for a book or whatever.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 months ago

lol yeah it's the most absurd way to deliver packages

[–] Magos_Galactose@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I could think of this as an extension of existing space infrastructure, allow using the spaceport as hub for extra-fast delivery.

The problem is this require said spaceport to existed in the first place, which we still have exactly zero of it.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Okay, I can get behind this idea if it means building the things in space because we actually have the ability to extract resources from asteroids or something. The science side of me is hella tickled by that.

I mean, logically, we probably have everything on our planet to sustain ourselves. We would never actually need to do that. But still, tickled by that idea.