and i dont remember putting the option "launch it into deep space/sun" in my poll.
is my memmory betraying me, or did someone else do it???
Of course we should.
We should not.
Only nuclear, toxic, or dangerous waste...
Send it into deep space/sun
and i dont remember putting the option "launch it into deep space/sun" in my poll.
is my memmory betraying me, or did someone else do it???
I am the Alpha and the Omega!!!
There's talk about a space elevator, we could put the garbage on that!
http://www.techtv.com/news/scitech/s...370398,00.html
I'm all for shooting it into the sun... the sun would probably enjoy a couple billion more pounds of **** to burn.
That's funny, somebody saying we will in effect DESTROY the sun or something by sending garbage into it. As the thread starter says, not much can be done to hurt the sun-a STAR for all that dont know.
Maybe the person that said it thinks that all the coke/ice left in the Mcdonalds cups will put the SUN 'out'. Who knows.
Maybe it would be cheaper to bury it on the moon-yes yes gravity issue but hey! we have been there before-and it is ours!
N.B Fountain back at UNI now, so its Mr nice guy for 9 months. Honest-no flaming from me now-just work!
Such is life.
well considering the sun is a few millino degrees hot, everything launched at it would in effect be vaporized way before it even reached the surface. If i remember correctly from High School science, the suns corona (the damn thing sourounding the sun which extends a few hundred thousand miles into space) is even hotter than the surface of the sun so nothing would ever make it to the sun.
"only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and im not sure about the former." - albert einstein
I don't see any reasons NOT to send the garbage to space. Landfills are filling up exponentially, and they're not getting bigger.
And the garbage production is not going to stop or slow down anytime soon. Sooner or later we will have to find a way to get rid of it.
Shooting it at the sun would be the most favorable option IMO. Like others have said previously, the garbage would be destroyed long before it actually got to the sun.
BTW, we already put garbage into space. We do it with the shuttle, and we did it during the Apollo program. (Yes, there's garbage on the moon right now...)
$9,360,000,000 EVERY DAY!!!
and that's just New York....
Moreover what are you going to do whne it crashes? You've just put toxic wast in a n air burst all over the planet.
Oh, but didn't you hear them? We've perfected space flight so that it could NEVER, ever, EVER explode...Originally posted by kermi3
$9,360,000,000 EVERY DAY!!!
and that's just New York....
Moreover what are you going to do whne it crashes? You've just put toxic wast in a n air burst all over the planet.
Maybe the explosion would destory the garbage
>>Maybe the explosion would destory the garbage
maybe we'd get really lucky and the explosion would incinerate you, too.
And i've done what to offend you?
Why, nothing at all. It was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
Oh, do you do that to total strangers while walking down the street?
>Moreover what are you going to do whne it crashes? You've just
>put toxic wast in a n air burst all over the planet.
What are you going to do when there is no more planet? When
everything is covered in garbage, and all of that toxic waste starts
seeping into the ground water? There're only so many acres of
Earth.
That price you keep quoting is... That's how much it would cost
currenty. Nobody ever said that we're going to start launching
trash into space today. By the time an actual plan is developed,
the cost would go down. NASA is already working on cheaper
ways to launch things into space.
http://fyi.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/0...glev.launches/
$10,000/pound -> $1,000/pound. That's a big difference.
Oh, and also about that price -- that's Nasa's price. Open up the
doors to private competition and that'll bring the price down
more.
Before a plan is even developed, they would have thought about
all potential disasters, and how to deal with them.
>AMTRAK
Are you actually comparing AMTRAK to NASA?
One NASA craft has exploded during launch. That was 20 years
ago. I think NASA has pretty much perfected the process of
getting things into space. And even if it's not perfect, it's still
a chance that's worth taking.
Staying away from General.
