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minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 days agoRocket fuel is toxic. Don’t cook with it. Don’t touch or breathe it. Don’t even look at it. Once it’s burned it’s mostly safe, aside from the usual problems with combustion products.
minus-squaretehn00bi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoIs LOX and methane really that bad?
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI was thinking hydrazine. I don’t know what this rocket was using.
minus-squaretehn00bi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agohttps://provscons.com/heres-why-spacex-uses-methane-in-starship/
Break out the marshmallows
Rocket fuel is toxic. Don’t cook with it. Don’t touch or breathe it. Don’t even look at it.
Once it’s burned it’s mostly safe, aside from the usual problems with combustion products.
Is LOX and methane really that bad?
I was thinking hydrazine. I don’t know what this rocket was using.
https://provscons.com/heres-why-spacex-uses-methane-in-starship/