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May sound silly but could we send it into space instead of burying it? Surely it could be sent on a trajectory to burn up at the sun or another planet’s atmosph
by ssss11 8y ago
May sound silly but could we send it into space instead of burying it? Surely it could be sent on a trajectory to burn up at the sun or another planet’s atmosphere. I guess the obvious issue is cost, are there others?
- ilyagr 8y agoIt's counterintuitively hard to send something into the sun. You have to cancel out all of Earth's velocity. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just-rocket-garbage-into-the-sun http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/07/heres-why-we-cant-just...