Well, bugger me dead, apparently they do...How Much Air Pollution Is Produced by Rockets?
But to what extent...no-one knows how much. You would think with all the science involved..global warming etc, someone would have done some indepth research by now. It came into my thinking when our PM decided to pledge 150 mill to space research on reaching Mars.
Now, I'm pretty sure Mars or the Moon are not going to go anywhere anytime soon. So I'm wondering why don't we spend the dollars on fixing up the place where we live first...what with all the plastic in the oceans, climate warming, war, etc, etc, etc.
It's not like we were living in the 60's and it was a race to see who could get to the moon first. The population of the Earth has nearly doubled since then, there was no issue with climate warming, depletion of the ozone, poison water wells and rivers, lead pollution...plastic choking our oceans and many nations launching space crap into orbit. Leaving it there to choke up further launches in the future..
Our science tells us, we can't find an answer to ridding the plastic, we can't find a reasonable answer to rid space of the junk we put up there, nor easy ways to fix or repair a depleting Ozone...........yet science tells us we need to go to Mars......Ok....Yay, let's do eeeet.
But to what extent...no-one knows how much. You would think with all the science involved..global warming etc, someone would have done some indepth research by now. It came into my thinking when our PM decided to pledge 150 mill to space research on reaching Mars.
Now, I'm pretty sure Mars or the Moon are not going to go anywhere anytime soon. So I'm wondering why don't we spend the dollars on fixing up the place where we live first...what with all the plastic in the oceans, climate warming, war, etc, etc, etc.
It's not like we were living in the 60's and it was a race to see who could get to the moon first. The population of the Earth has nearly doubled since then, there was no issue with climate warming, depletion of the ozone, poison water wells and rivers, lead pollution...plastic choking our oceans and many nations launching space crap into orbit. Leaving it there to choke up further launches in the future..
Our science tells us, we can't find an answer to ridding the plastic, we can't find a reasonable answer to rid space of the junk we put up there, nor easy ways to fix or repair a depleting Ozone...........yet science tells us we need to go to Mars......Ok....Yay, let's do eeeet.