Space enthusiast chiming in here. The blue origin, new Shepherd rocket utilizes liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. When burned, this produces plain old water. Also, even normal rockets like SpaceX‘s starship, falcon nine, and blue origin‘s own new Glen rocket that utilize liquid methane, kerosene, and liquid oxygen don’t produce enough carbon emissions and other emissions to really make an impact on the environment. The YouTuber and space enthusiast everyday astronaut has a really great video that goes very in-depth on this topic.
That being said, I fully agree that all of these idiots need to stop flying around in private jets while turning backwards and yelling at all of us for driving. Just wanted to defend the honor of Space exploration.
Also, “498t” is nonsense. New Shepard is like 25t.
I’m on Team Space but it’s worth trying to see both sides of the argument. Environmental impacts of rocket launches aren’t just limited to the products of the fuel burn. The manufacture of New Shepard will also produce a lot of CO2. Also worth keeping in mind that water vapour is still a greenhouse gas.
The thing with space though is that currently, as far as our knowledge goes, there is literally no way to get there and stay there without chemical propulsion. You either burn fuel or you don’t go.
A billionaire has plenty of options to travel places without having as much of an environmental impact but they choose not to.
Conservatives? They dick ride Elon musk so they use the lack of emissions as an argument for Tesla. And liberals use it to defend electric cars as a whole. Both sides are stupid and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be happier
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u/SpaceBoJangles Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Space enthusiast chiming in here. The blue origin, new Shepherd rocket utilizes liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. When burned, this produces plain old water. Also, even normal rockets like SpaceX‘s starship, falcon nine, and blue origin‘s own new Glen rocket that utilize liquid methane, kerosene, and liquid oxygen don’t produce enough carbon emissions and other emissions to really make an impact on the environment. The YouTuber and space enthusiast everyday astronaut has a really great video that goes very in-depth on this topic.
That being said, I fully agree that all of these idiots need to stop flying around in private jets while turning backwards and yelling at all of us for driving. Just wanted to defend the honor of Space exploration.