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Head_Weakness8028 t1_jdxzaqc wrote

I remember when I was a kid, I asked my dad, something similar of why don’t we just shoot our garbage toward the sun. And his reply has stuck with me to this day. He said that by the time our species is advanced enough that shooting our garbage out of Earth’s orbit and into the sun is feasible, we should already be properly breaking down 100% of our waste into something usable. And he used life itself as an example we eat we drink we breathe, and we expel other usable components into the environment. Technically, we should produce no “waste“.

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Postnificent OP t1_jdy0d3r wrote

That explanation leaves out the part that we will never fly out to collect space junk and recycle it unless we end up in some dystopian future like depicted in The Expanse.

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VoraciousCoprophage t1_jdyc6qm wrote

"Unless"... Hey nobody tell him, just let him see it...

(Hahah joking, but yea. If we send our trash to another planet for 100 years, and then 1000 years, and then 5,000 years... How much mass will we have lost? We will literally be using all our resources to... throw our resources away. We will have to then start using more resources to capture asteroids for metal. The metal was already there, we just sent it away out of temporary convenience.)

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