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HerrJemine t1_j9qmtve wrote

Antarctica alone loses 220 gigatons of ice per year. To counter that, we would have to launch SLS, the most powerful currently operational rocket, about 25 million times a year.

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sl0wrx t1_j9qp3ny wrote

You just build a pipeline up into space with a pump, simple.

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km_j3825 t1_j9qq75s wrote

Yea, forget a space elevator gimme the space main water line

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Doomenate t1_j9qspcn wrote

It's funny your mention SLS. The payload is 231,485 lbs, but the liquid fuel is hydrogen and oxygen which combined after combusting would become 2,177,000 lbs of water. So we'd be splitting 2 million pounds of water into hydrogen and oxygen just to combine it again to move 200k pounds of water into LEO.

Might as well skip the launch and keep the fuel separated!

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