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Aardwolf on June 10, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Everything about Mars is the worst (2017)

> A nuclear war is scarier, but none of the fallout is going to reach the South Pole

The South Pole is within easy reach though, why wouldn't a colony on it get targeted as well?

once_inc on June 10, 2024 [–]

If there is a self-sufficient colony there, and it consists of people from a single nation, it will be targeted. Only a non-political, mixed-heritage colony of scientists and farmers might be overlooked.

ttyprintk on June 10, 2024 | [–]

As of 1964, with the Mariner launches, the same rocket would be used to target either Antarctica or Mars.

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