So, to all you NASA-types in-the-know out there, here's a question for you - my husband and I got into an argument tonight about why they don't just send nuclear waste (which is, he argues, very expensive to hold here on Earth), on a suicidal spaceship into the sun? I responded with my general "Well, if they could do that, they would have by now" routine (too much faith in humanity, I know) but I theorized that the COST of a sort of "kamikaze" spaceship required to carry a load of nuclear waste to the sun would outweigh the expense of housing the waste here on Earth. Are we both way off here? Are there environmental concerns, or other reasons we haven't considered, that we don't just ship our dangerous garbage up to be consumed by the sun's constant explosions? What are we missing? Prove us both equally wrong and you may save a marriage... ;-)
2006-09-07
15:54:18
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