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Launch the waste into space. We sure as hell will never use the rockets for human panspermia if we keep expecting to power all this crap we throw out
by chmsky00 5y ago
Launch the waste into space.
We sure as hell will never use the rockets for human panspermia if we keep expecting to power all this crap we throw out
- entropicgravity 5y agoAnd then drop it into the sun. CO2 in space doesn't count toward global warming.
- number6 5y agoIt's actually pretty hard to drop something into the sun. You have to slow down quite a bit, which in turn needs a lot of fuel
- krapp 5y agoIt would be prohibitively expensive just to launch a bit of it into orbit, much less to enough of it far enough into space that it won't just get recaptured and dumped back on us eventually. Plus, the process of creating the spacecraft alone (with near physics-defying fuel efficiency and carrying capacity, and more rockets than we have the physical capacity to launch, to boot) would create more pollution than gets carried off, per simple thermodynamics. Also become sometimes rockets explode, and you don't want to be anywhere around the exploding rocket full of nuclear waste. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-throw-our-garbage-into-the-sun/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-t... https://astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just-rocket-garbage-into-the-sun https://astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just-ro...