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The cost to bring trash (or even nuclear waste) to the moon is completely prohibitive, so the only thing it will be a dumping ground for is trash generated on t
by jessriedel 3y ago
The cost to bring trash (or even nuclear waste) to the moon is completely prohibitive, so the only thing it will be a dumping ground for is trash generated on the moon. And for the foreseeable future it will be entirely appropriate to dump lunar trash where ever it is most convenient.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThe cost to bring anything to the moon is completely prohibitive.
- HPsquared 3y agoProhibitive currently. Not for long, with Starship on the horizon.
- nirav72 3y ago>dumping ground for is trash generated on the moon. That might be a easier problem to solve on the moon. Considering its much much lower escape velocity. Once someone builds something like a mass-driver on the moon - they can just shoot the junk into an orbit that will eventually have it fall into the sun in a few hundred years.
- jessriedel 3y agoWith the possible exception of something extremely expensive to store like nuclear waste, we do not want to eject trash. It contains many valuable elements, and we have plenty of storage space. Much better to pile it up, as we are doing on Earth, and then mine it later once we have better tech.