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[Paigntonian]

Space flights damage the environment. I expect they do but to such a small amount it's probably the same as five farting cows in Cumbria. They couldn't even try to measure it.

[Spungle]

Sure the environment can cope fine. Still, all the hype, yelling at passers by and protesting by gluing themselves to bridges gives the unemployable something to do.

[bluemoon1]

And volcanoes don't apparently?

[Paigntonian]

Despair of people continually manufacturing facts to fit their argument.

[Sunk]

The truth is, no one knows one way or another at the moment, NASA are making a study.
But more rocket launches are being made as Space flights have been privatised in the US. 44 flight in 2020, and a lot more projected this year. So it will be useful to have some data.

// Despair of people continually manufacturing facts to fit their argument. //

From the poster of..

// it's probably the same as five farting cows in Cumbria //

LOL

[Paigntonian]

Five farting cows wasn't meant to be a serious point.

[Sunk]

You asserted
// its such a small amount //
- something you don’t really know.

You might have made up the farting cows bit, but your intention was to dismiss the possibility that it might be a problem.

They are not going to stop space exploration, it will continue no matter what NASA’s bean crunchers decide.

[archibaldy]

// Five farting cows wasn't meant to be a serious point. //

Assuming Cumbria was, note that releasing gasses directly into the ozone layer has a much larger damage to the environment than releasing them in Ambleside.

[jno]

depends if the next one crashes down in the middle of the Pacific or in my garden, I suppose.

[youngmafbog]

Only the ones with "Made In China" do that jno.

[Sunk]

Ymb,

90% of all rockets* crash into the sea (or ground) after take off.
The good news is that the private US rocket contractors are developing and introducing vehicles which are recyclable.
Space-X is already flying missions to the ISS in fully reusable rockets.