LostXOR

Better to learn something new than to stay in a hole of ignorance because I can't accept I'm wrong.

Especially alien planets with Jupiter's gravity. It's well known that more gravity == steeper cliffs!

Fair enough, seems to be a legitimate enough study.

Do you have a source for that? I'm skeptical.

Ah, the Scunthorpe problem.

That doesn't really help unless the bag is also soundproof; it could just as easily store what you say and send it off later.

Technically it's just as efficient if you use an ideal bi-elliptic transfer, but that will take infinity years so it's definitely easier to just leave the Solar System entirely. You can also usually get a nice slingshot off a gas giant or two for massive delta-v savings!

People don't always make decisions perfectly rationally, unfotrtunately.

What about fishing boats? They're coming back with a ton of extra weight in fish.

Those are some serious manipulation tactics... I like it.

That's basically a space elevator (though space elevators are shorter and held up by centripetal forces). Unfortunately they're quite outside our technological capabilities at the moment.