>What a great way to gradually get rid of nuclear waste.
Kurzgesagt made a video on this and explains precisely why this is a terrible idea. The basic gist of it is that "what goes around comes around" is very literally the problem: aiming at the sun isn't actually very easy and there's still a good chance it'll go back to Earth.
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Reply to comment by HeebieMcJeeberson in What if we kept pursuing nuclear spacecraft propulsion? by rosTopicEchoChamber
>What a great way to gradually get rid of nuclear waste.
Kurzgesagt made a video on this and explains precisely why this is a terrible idea. The basic gist of it is that "what goes around comes around" is very literally the problem: aiming at the sun isn't actually very easy and there's still a good chance it'll go back to Earth.