don't you think we have the technology to?

Question

get water into orbit? think about it.

i'm thinking of massive quantities of water. we should be able to do this to counteract the increase of sea level. once new york city starts to flood because our icecaps melted too much we have a problem and a good solution in my opinion would be to shoot the water into space. maybe aim it at the moon so the moon gets some H2O

Answer 1

No, at the present time we do not have the technology to move huge volumes of anything into space - and it would be useless to try and move huge payloads into space a small load at a time.
Your idea was suggested years ago as a way to eliminate the nuclear waste we generate in our nuclear power plants, rather than let it decay on the earth's surface, why not shoot it into space. Feasibility studies were actually carried out and the results were all consistent - it isn't possible, either financially or practically to try and launch such large volumes of anything into space at this time.

Answer 2

Exactly my thinking, don't launch it into space because water is too vauluable (and the hydrogen and oxygen its made of is too valuable) It would be unwise to permanently remove water from the earth, but putting into orbit or on the moon is a good idea I think. We don't have the technology yet too get enough water into space to actually make a difference to water levels. Also it would have to be in a container. Water on the moon would evaporate quickly and dissapear into space.

Answer 3

NO. The water is too heavy and would require too much energy to lift all that water into orbit. The rate of energy production necessary to accomplish such a feat would produce so much greenhouse gases that the ice-caps would melt faster than the water could be shot into space.

Answer 4

Not without a container

Answer 5

Water in what volume ????????????