I know this is a dumb question, but I’ve always wondered-
What’s stopping us from building a huge spaceship, loading it up with a bunch of nuclear waste/trash and shooting it into the Sun or off into space? Are we not capable of building a spaceship large enough, are we too afraid of what would happen if the launch failed, would the ship burn up leaving the Earth’s atmosphere and release its’ contents, etc.? Would something like this be a viable solution for disposing of our waste in the future?
KoolAndBlue t1_ivqwo5u wrote
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I know this is a dumb question, but I’ve always wondered-
What’s stopping us from building a huge spaceship, loading it up with a bunch of nuclear waste/trash and shooting it into the Sun or off into space? Are we not capable of building a spaceship large enough, are we too afraid of what would happen if the launch failed, would the ship burn up leaving the Earth’s atmosphere and release its’ contents, etc.? Would something like this be a viable solution for disposing of our waste in the future?