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Postnificent OP t1_jdy0d3r wrote

Reply to comment by Head_Weakness8028 in Why don’t we use Venus as a dumpster? by Postnificent

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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