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notbatman talks about the distortion and aberration that the atmosphere of earth does to camera pictures. But now you want to undermine his whole thing by essentially suggesting that the pictures are without distortion and aberration, and that the clear picture is CGI. You can't have it both ways. Either there is atmospheric aberration and distortion, or there isn't
As far as Wernher von Braun goes, he had a whole lot of knowledge about the space program that he was under oath and orders to not divulge. He knew all about the Orion Project -
https://newatlas.com/orion-project-atom-bomb-spaceship/49454/ - which could get people to Mars in a few months rather than a couple of years... and do it in safety and comfort.
The fact is, we have enough equipment to assemble the Orion Project spaceship in orbit, and then boost it to high orbit (outside the Van Allen Belts), where the radiation it would produce would be pushed away from the earth by solar winds, when it finally blasted off.
In fact, this ship is powerful enough to move in on Mars from the outside (beyond the Mars Sun orbit), so that the radiation would head harmlessly out into the great voids of the Asteroid Belt. Even Mars would be protected.
I don't know that I agree with the Project, but we have the technology, and nearly the economy, to do it.
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