Spacex Starship Pad Damage

Cryogenic kero is falcon.
We are now on cryogenic methane and cryo oxygen. Meth-Ox


LOx/LCH4 was selected by ESAS as one of two
propellant combinations of most interest because it is
high performing, non-toxic, and can be obtained from
Martian and lunar in-situ resources (CH4 from the
Martian atmosphere and LOx from the Martian and
lunar soil)
 
I'd say this is a good moment to stop posting on this thread. Nothing good can come from hereon. Let's go home, everybody - save the staff members some work.
 
Woah.

There was no way to predict that?
Just have a look to other launch pads...


Artemisa, for example.
You can see similar solutions in others, Ariane, Soyuz....

So, yes, throwing tons (270 tn) of hot gas directly to a flat surface it's not a good idea and you can suppose you will have problems (Newton's laws are very tenacious.)
Even medium/big dams, have geometries to softening the water fall.
 
How does all this help to keep global industrial age climate heating below 2°C?

Observe the Timeline

Alright for Musk, moving to a plastic bubble on Mars with a few of his fellow pirates.

I'm hoping we'll all have read Ben Elton's 'Stark' in time.
 
I would be more concerned about useless uses of rockets for things like Starlink (just run wires) if you want to be concerned about emissions.
 
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