2006-11-02 19:32:37 · 6 answers · asked by OU812 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Firstly our wastes contains many substances like several kinds of elements for e magnesium, iron, cobalt, etc.. If we send them into space, we will lose the possibility to recycle the wastes and reuse the elements or compounds in them to manufacture other things. However if we want to get rid of them by space, this costs a whole lot of money since for sending 1 g of waste, about nearly hundred times the amount of energy needed to create that waste will be lost to propel the waste into space. So it would be illogical to do that since we would be wasting our precious energy sources, our money and also polluting our earth more by the burning of fuels to propel the rockets into space.
2006-11-02 20:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by Y L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is against international LAW to send garbage into space but, the Russians still eject everything out the port hole of their ships, there is so much crap floating around up there that space walks are just about over, they only do it with the shuttle used as a barrier to protect the astronaut, a fleck of paint traveling at 2000 miles per hour will go right through you. If you get a set of even low powered binoculars, and go out star gazing just before sun down, you can see solar panels and a whole lot of unexplained things floating around, most of it is space junk (solar panels, tools, etc) try it for a week, you WILL SEE things !
2006-11-02 20:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In theory we can sent just about anything to beyond the earth.
Cost would be the deciding factor. Even with all the politics and wastefullness we have in abundance, unless we found an extremely 'cheap' method of transferring the 'rubbish' to space, I cannot see it happening.
On the flip side of this we have to remember that 'rubbish' is all chemicals that if not today, sometime in the future can and will be recycled totally.
Why get rid of material costing even more money when you cn reuse it.
At present it is just our easy option lifestyles that stops that.
2006-11-02 19:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Todays garbage is tomorrows fuel. We need tp harness our landfills, not hide them.
2006-11-02 22:08:57 · answer #4 · answered by aorton27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That could be a very expensive way to survive our own wastefulness.
2006-11-02 19:37:29 · answer #5 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WE START STACKING ON STOP OF WASH DC.
TAKE DECADES FOR THEM TO FOUND OUT WHAT WE'RE DOING...........
KEEP IT BETWEEN US.......................WE'LL GET RICH BY DIGGING A DITCH.
2006-11-02 19:41:27 · answer #6 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋