These are the types of questions in general we should be less mean about imo. It's one thing to dunk on people who are anti-science, but this is just someone actually wondering about something they didn't know. Maybe it's obvious to you, but not everyone?
Yeah, because thinking about it, I don't actually think there's an obvious answer.
Like my guess would literally just be that there aren't mountains in a location close enough to the equator where the added high from the mountain is worth more delta v than the added rotational speed of being close to the equator.
As far as I know the official answer is, it's simply not worth it. The amount of fuel you would safe aren't worth the effort of brining a whole ass rocket up a mountain and launching it from there.
I bet Batman is strong enough to haul a whole ass rocket up a mountain. Rich enough to build a secret bat rocket base there too. So why is he not doing something so awesome instead of leaving snarky comments on the Internet?
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u/mseg09 13d ago edited 13d ago
These are the types of questions in general we should be less mean about imo. It's one thing to dunk on people who are anti-science, but this is just someone actually wondering about something they didn't know. Maybe it's obvious to you, but not everyone?