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  • You hardly need a spaceport. A running jump can get you escape velocity from Deimos.
    – Buzz
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    Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
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  • You hardly need a spaceport. A running jump can get you escape velocity from Deimos.
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    Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
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You hardly need a spaceport. A running jump can get you escape velocity from Deimos.
– Buzz
1 hour ago




You hardly need a spaceport. A running jump can get you escape velocity from Deimos.
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Yes, but where are you going to buy your coffee if you have a long flight to the outer planets?
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In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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    One of the earliest (1951) attempts at hard SF about Mars (that was also well-written), Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars features a spaceport on Deimos. The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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    Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




    Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



    In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



    In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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      In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




      The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
      with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
      the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
      each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
      lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
      trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
      around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
      formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
      the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
      Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




      Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




      In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
      moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
      even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
      so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
      minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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        In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




        The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
        with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
        the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
        each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
        lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
        trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
        around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
        formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
        the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
        Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




        Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




        In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
        moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
        even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
        so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
        minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




        Morning Star cover






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          In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




          The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
          with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
          the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
          each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
          lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
          trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
          around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
          formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
          the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
          Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




          Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




          In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
          moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
          even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
          so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
          minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




          Morning Star cover






          share|improve this answer












          In Morning Star, the third book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy, Phobos is a transfer point for shipping helium-3, with 30 million inhabitants:




          The barren rock of Phobos has been carved hollow by man and wreathed
          with metal. With a radius of only twelve kilometers at its widest,
          the moon is ringed by two huge dockyards, which run perpendicular to
          each other. They're dark metal with white glyphs and blinking red
          lights for docking ships. They slither with the movement of magnetic
          trams and cargo vessels. Beneath the dockyards, and at times rising
          around them in the form of spiked towers, is the Hive - a jigsaw city
          formed not by neoclassical Gold ideals, but by raw economics without
          the confines of gravity. Six centuries' worth of buildings perforate
          Phobos. It is the largest pincushion man has ever built.




          Transshipping helium-3 up from Mars and onward to the rest of the solar system is Phobos' purpose:




          In the aftermath of my escape, the Jackal initiated an immediate
          moratorium on all flights leaving Mars for orbit.... Ultimately, not
          even the ArchGovernor of Mars could ground all commerce for long, and
          so his moratorium was short-lived. Billions of credits lost every
          minute the helium-3 did not flow [via Phobos].




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              One of the earliest (1951) attempts at hard SF about Mars (that was also well-written), Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars features a spaceport on Deimos. The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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              One of the earliest (1951) attempts at hard SF about Mars (that was also well-written), Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars features a spaceport on Deimos. The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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              One of the earliest (1951) attempts at hard SF about Mars (that was also well-written), Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars features a spaceport on Deimos. The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...






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              One of the earliest (1951) attempts at hard SF about Mars (that was also well-written), Arthur C. Clarke's Sands of Mars features a spaceport on Deimos. The idea has been used many times since then -- the exquisite Poul Anderson story "The Martian Crown Jewels" for instance. Phobos and/or Deimos have also been alien spaceships a number of times, but that doesn't count, I guess...







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              • Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
                – Bob516
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              • Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
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              Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
              – Bob516
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              Thanks, guess I missed that Clarke book in my youth. Good to have a reason to read him again.
              – Bob516
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              Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




              Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



              In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



              In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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                Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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                  Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                  Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                  In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                  In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.







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                  Yes. The Doom game was set on Phobos and there was a spaceport.




                  Phobos is the larger and innermost of the two moons of the planet Mars, the second being Deimos. It is the scene of the first Doom episode, Knee-Deep in the Dead. "Phobos" is the name of a god in Greek mythology and it can be translated as "panic fear", "flight" or "battlefield rout".



                  In Doom, Phobos is depicted with Earth-like gravity, a thick atmosphere, and having tall, seemingly vegetation-covered mountains; the sky texture for the episode was derived from a photograph taken of Yangshuo Cavern in China.



                  In reality, Phobos is a rock 22 kilometers in diameter with gravity less than a thousandth of that on Earth, and no atmosphere (even if an atmosphere could be generated artificially, the gravity would be insufficient to hold it in place). Phobos' gravity is so weak that a human being could escape it by jumping. In order to be more plausible, Doom 3 moved the plot to Mars.








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