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jacobush on June 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four Mars missions are launching next year

What worries me about Cloud City is the sulfuric acid gas in the atmosphere. Is it so hard to handle as I imagine?

ncmncm on June 12, 2019 [–]

Concentrated sulfuric acid is shipped freely in polyethylene bottles.

Polyethylene is just carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, all available at altitude.

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