How come we can't shoot garbage into space?

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manlymatt83

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Built a garbage shut high enough to where we could just shoot our garbage into outer space.... it'd eventually get destroyed by the sun if it was sent in that direction, no?
 
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How come we can't shoot garbage into space?
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Possibly because of the same reason that we can't currently shoot nuclear waste into space because we don't have a reliable delivery system IMO.
 
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biggestmuff

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You would waste too much energy and money trying to break the garbage free of the Earth's gravitational pull.
 
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RbSX

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sure if you don't want to have space lanes..

way to go, instead of solving the source of the problem and contaminating the earth with garbage, when we run out of space we should just shoot it into space.

no wonder you can't get with the girls, you have no brain to start off with.
 
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MegaVovaN

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Cuz its too expensive, it's cheaper to stack nuclear waste and garbage in your backyard :)
 
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Special K

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Heh, that reminds me of the Futurama episode where they had to deflect the "trash meteor" that was headed toward earth.
 
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manlymatt83

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Originally posted by: RyanSengara
sure if you don't want to have space lanes..

way to go, instead of solving the source of the problem and contaminating the earth with garbage, when we run out of space we should just shoot it into space.

no wonder you can't get with the girls, you have no brain to start off with.
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I'm actually a very big environmentalist. I wouldn't condone this at all.

All I'm asking is why we CAN'T do it.

And I have no problems with women.
 
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I think we should just make a very big room underground, fill it with garbage, and drop a fairly clean nuke.
 
Phokus

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I used to live in north dakota. Just send all the garbage there... it's basically barren.
 
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potato28

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Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I think we should just make a very big room underground, fill it with garbage, and drop a fairly clean nuke.
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I think we should make OP eat all the garbage...
 
Imyourzero

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Originally posted by: RyanSengara
sure if you don't want to have space lanes..

way to go, instead of solving the source of the problem and contaminating the earth with garbage, when we run out of space we should just shoot it into space.
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Why not? I mean, if the cost and other logistics could be made feasible, what's wrong with the idea? There's only, oh I dunno, an infinite amount of space out there to accommodate the garbage assuming we couldn't shoot it directly at the sun. I'd say it would take a lot longer to fill the universe with garbage than it will to fill Earth.

Seriously. If we had such a system set up, it shouldn't give people an excuse to be wasteful, but I don't think there is any way we'll ever get EVERYONE to recycle and/or do their part at reducing/eliminating waste. We're a long way off from the government *requiring* everyone to recycle and from every product being made with the foresight of being reusable.

It seems like the easy way out, but the fact is, garbage will continue to accumulate on this planet until we eventually run out of room for garbage, people, buildings, etc. If you can think of a way of "solving the source" that makes sense, I'm all for it.
 
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mwmorph

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
How come we can't shoot garbage into space?
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We can. We have the technology to do it... The problem is that it's just a wee bit cost-prohibitive.
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that and delivery systems are only 98-99% reliable. Assuming our biggest boosters can carry something like 20tons into space, we'd have hundreds of flights a day to clear the earth of trash. Now say anywhere from 2-8 rockets would blow up a day splattering the earth's populace with human waste.

Good idea. Lest spend trillions to splatter everyone with week old chicken bones.
 
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manlymatt83

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Originally posted by: Imyourzero
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
sure if you don't want to have space lanes..

way to go, instead of solving the source of the problem and contaminating the earth with garbage, when we run out of space we should just shoot it into space.
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Why not? I mean, if the cost and other logistics could be made feasible, what's wrong with the idea? There's only, oh I dunno, an infinite amount of space out there to accommodate the garbage assuming we couldn't shoot it directly at the sun. I'd say it would take a lot longer to fill the universe with garbage than it will to fill Earth.

Seriously. If we had such a system set up, it shouldn't give people an excuse to be wasteful, but I don't think there is any way we'll ever get EVERYONE to recycle and/or do their part at reducing/eliminating waste. We're a long way off from the government *requiring* everyone to recycle and from every product being made with the foresight of being reusable.

It seems like the easy way out, but the fact is, garbage will continue to accumulate on this planet until we eventually run out of room for garbage, people, buildings, etc. If you can think of a way of "solving the source" that makes sense, I'm all for it.
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So the consensus is that it IS possible with our current technology?
 
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Flyback

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The same reason we can't breath underwater, son. We just can't.

Go on. Prove me wrong ;)
 
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