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Re:Why We Don't Shoot Earth's Garbage into the Sun (2019) by t0ddbonzalez on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:55AM (#23309973)
Humanity in a nutshell: "Why change our polluting ways when we could just blast our junk into space?"

Why do we think we have the right to blast our junk into space?

Who does the cleanup when a rocket explodes after launch and covers Florida/Guyana/Khazakstan in used diapers and hypodermic needles?

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Re:Why We Don't Shoot Earth's Garbage into the Sun (2019) by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:38AM (#23311685)
Too late; already covered.
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Re:Why We Don't Shoot Earth's Garbage into the Sun (2019) by t0ddbonzalez on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:12AM (#23312145)
Really? How so?
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Re:Why We Don't Shoot Earth's Garbage into the Sun (2019) by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:47AM (#23312602)
Isn't the whole issue, get the trash out of our ecosystem and put it 'into space'? That's the entire topic.
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