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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:05:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Ahh, a new holiday tradition: looking up Atomic Rockets' mission page to guess at how long it should take The Martians from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians to get from Earth to Mars

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:29:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Here's the tl;dr: a realistic flight to Mars is something like 25-200 days.

     In Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, they make three trips in December and supposedly make it back before the 24th. (mars->earth->mars->earth)

     Even ignoring that they spent some amount of time on Mars/Earth (maybe an hour on earth, at least a day on Mars), that still means they crossed in 8 days at most.

     Pretty fast.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:34:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     That would be perfectly fine (we can just assume the Martians have a big torchship) but at one point they leave Earth and it turns out that they're being followed by a spaceship from Earth, trying to get Santa back.
     And the Martians seem to think this is bad and that they need their stealth thing turned back on.
     So they seem to think the US rocket can keep up with them.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:38:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The only solution? This takes place in some kind of weird version of a torchship setting where the US has the ability to fly from earth to Mars in a bit over a week, but hasn't yet used this technology yet... despite Mars being both habitable and inhabited.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:44:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Alternatively the US response is far slower, and neither side realizes this. The earth ship isn't able to stop the Martians en route, and the Martians are more freaked out by the fact they're being followed at all, and off-screen they realize they can just outrun the humans and thus stop worrying about the ship.
     (it does disappear from the narrative pretty quick)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:48:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Neia

     @neia if you've not seen the movie, Santa does use this ability in the movie: he escapes an airlock (one of the Martians attempts to SPACE SANTA) by going up the tube that extracts the air.

   • Neia (neia@fedi.ikeran.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 13:48:49 JST Neia

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     @foone@digipres.club Santa can shape-shift to get down chimneys. The same effect might let him bypass the rocket equation, which would let him do a constant burn...