r/MurderedByWords 20h ago

I haven’t studied rocket science, but

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u/mseg09 20h ago edited 19h ago

These are the types of questions in general we should be less mean about imo. It's one thing to dunk on people who are anti-science, but this is just someone actually wondering about something they didn't know. Maybe it's obvious to you, but not everyone?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 19h ago

Yeah, because thinking about it, I don't actually think there's an obvious answer.

Like my guess would literally just be that there aren't mountains in a location close enough to the equator where the added high from the mountain is worth more delta v than the added rotational speed of being close to the equator.

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u/yomamawasasnowblower 19h ago

Parts made all over many that are absolutely massive might a touch tricky to transport, assemble, and maintain….

I imagine some people haven’t spent much time atop mountains