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Question for SS Scienticians

What's stopping us (other than the expensiveness of it) from launching our refuse into space? Would it not solve the problem or would it backfire on us?
05-10-2012 08:03 AM
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Mostly money and special ships would have to be built and the man power to move all the garbage.
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We need droids.
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By space, do you mean low-Earth orbit or something like the Sun or another planet/moon?
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Nothing.

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It'd use up a fuckton of fuel and take a long time for very little garbage disposal. You can only fit so much in a spaceship, and compared to the amount of garbage we produce daily, the amount of waste we'd get rid of is very little. It takes a lot of time to build the spaceships (that we won't be getting back, most likely) and I doubt there'd be launches every day.
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That's why an expedition would have to be in phases with multiple ships.

Also a trip to mars with current technology would take around 6 months. It used to take people that long to sail from England to Australia. So it's not that long a trip.
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What's wrong with just putting it all into giant holes all over the place and then living on top of our own waste? Lol, but yeah, errybody pretty much covered it.

I advocate this lololo:

Quote:A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads up to high speeds. All existing and contemplated mass drivers use coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets. Sequential firing of a row of electromagnets accelerates the payload along a path. After leaving the path, the payload continues to move due to momentum.

Which isn't too far off. The military uses similar techniques to launch shit from naval ships these days.
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(05-10-2012 11:52 AM)Sharpie Wrote:  It'd use up a fuckton of fuel and take a long time for very little garbage disposal. You can only fit so much in a spaceship, and compared to the amount of garbage we produce daily, the amount of waste we'd get rid of is very little. It takes a lot of time to build the spaceships (that we won't be getting back, most likely) and I doubt there'd be launches every day.
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Large catapults to launch our waste into space? That's awesome.
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