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Things You Thought You Knew – Where the Sun Don’t Shine

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The Expansion of Mars

When they're approaching the planet, even though they're really far away from the planet, the rockets are firing in the opposite direction. They have to do that in order to put on the brakes. In fact, one of the ideas of how to get to Mars without being zero G for nine months is you accelerate at 1G halfway to Mars. Then you turn around and decelerate at 1G to Mars. That's how you do that. And then you'll need the medical examiner looking at your whoever they are. You know, something's happened to his bone density when I'm not going to see what it is. So if I say the planets are aligned, what would that

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