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Comment by xuki

13 hours ago

There is no other mode of transportation cheaper than shipping across the ocean.

launching things via a mass driver from the moon to the earth requires a lot less fuel, is faster, and cheaper than shipping across the ocean

That one is subsidized by externalizing costs to our lungs.

  • Shipping on water has been, by far, the cheapest mode of long-distance shipping since the moment boats were invented. That is to say, since thousands of years before boats were ever powered by the shit that destroys our lungs.