• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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      Mars rovers are literally a rounding error in terms of our uses of earth’s resources. Any honest accounting in the future is probably going to be way more critical of wasteful practices that actually account for large percentages of resource usage.

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      Once methalox engines are the norm, we will be able to make fuel from CO2 and H2O, both of which we have more than enough of.