In the year 2122, Eurnekian Spaceports Inc. (ESI) a company that runs for already many years the Garni Village Cosmodrome on Earth and Garni Crater Spaceport on the planet Mars. Every month 56 family-size passenger spacecraft (FPS) take off from Garni Crater Spaceport and set course for Earth, and the same number of FPS take off from Garni Village Cosmodrome and set course for Mars. Each FPS carries 5 passengers. The average travel time of a spacecraft is 18 months, whether it is from Mars to Earth or from Earth to Mars.

1.1 What is the number of ESI spacecraft that are in the process of traveling? How many passengers are in the process of traveling?

1.2 Eurnekian Spaceports Inc. considers a new space-time warp technology that will reduce the travel time for spacecraft down to an average of 3 months (in either direction).

(i) If such technology is adopted, what would be the average number of FPS and passengers in the process of traveling from the ESI overall perspective?

(ii) Explain what are the advantages and/or disadvantages of adopting this technology

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