Current Events > Why not put research into how we can shoot our garbage/waste into outer space?

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I feel that most space research is a waste of resources. why not put it into something more useful like finding a way to shoot shit out there so our planet stays cleaner?

It'll be pretty expensive to launch garbage into space on a regular basis.
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Galaxy warming
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we could load up rockets filled with garbage and fire them into the sun

studies show that the trash would eventually come back to us as a giant death ball. Its better to burn it in a volcano and use the gas to fill air matresses
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I always felt like we are at the point to have created a giant incinerator that has a smoke filtration system that eliminates the harmful toxins and releases a safe vapor into the air, or something along those lines. The "Let's dump it on a piece of land" approach seems a bit dated and primitive.
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RE_expert44 posted...

studies show that the trash would eventually come back to us as a giant death ball. Its better to burn it in a volcano and use the gas to fill air matresses

Throwing trash into a volcano is a pretty deadly task.
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Futurama tried it, didn't work too well
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how practical would it be to task NASA with waste disposal

Or, we develop ways to just eliminate waste outright.
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What if all the trash just falls back down to Earth though???
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Ray_Dorset posted...

Futurama tried it, didn't work too well

they should have fired it in the sun, or a black hole. I don't get why they didn't

It is very difficult to aim something toward the sun.
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Anisoptera posted...

It is very difficult to aim something toward the sun.

even in the 31st century? right now it is. I bet they can do it 1 thousand years from now

a private citizen, Farnsworth was able to almost do it in one episode and only didn't cause they changed their mind. not from being incapable of it

in that episode about the 2 reverse universes in a box