Is space the answer to our problems?

Question

I was thinking everyone is so worried about garbage and nuclear waste and all kinds of things being on this planet. So why dont we just ship them into outer space towards the sun and it would just get burned up. Besides it seems that most people believe there is nothing out there so why waste it. I for one believe in extraterestials but it seems that most dont so why not just ship this waste off the planet.

I never said anything about sending trash up in a rocket people. think futureistic they are already designing a elevator to the new space station. there are other ways to do things people not just with rockets think thats how we invent things

Answer 1

There is truth in space, and I have yet to find any here on Earth.

Answer 2

The world is very similar to the USA insofar as the main problems. I will answer from the USA point of view (not meaning the rest of the world is to blame, but rather describing the faults of our people, which are the faults of all people of earth, though these faults are worse in many other places).

1. Ignorance and overpopulation
2. Ethical and moral degeneracy: failure to follow the golden rule, even failure to follow our U.S. Constitution in actual practice.
3. Political parties organized along economic lines and working for special interests rather than the entire public.
4. Educational oppression
5. Resistance to education and lack of individual self-control
6. Failure of individuals to establish a relationship with God
7. The substitution of doctrines and 'mediators' for the personal relationship mentioned in (6).

Space is NOT the answer.
When the greedy businessman decides NOT to dump the poisonous waste into the Rouge River or the Mississippi River.,
When the person in the position of power believes in the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Human Rights for others, not just number 1,
When education is directed toward finding out what people can do rather than what they cannot do,
When education is free and continuing,
When people who know what they want to do are not blocked, but are encouraged and helped,
When the goal becomes to make EVERYONE a productive member of society,
When fairness applies everywhere,
When legal means ethical,
When everyone tries to do quality work, the best they can,
When Michigan starts building QUALITY bridges at the lowest possible price instead of the lowest possible quality at the HIGHEST possible price awarded to crooked contractors and the debris stops falling on the public and killing them,
and When the same applies to Boston Dig, and everywhere else,
When the most competent is hired instead of the most privileged or the most degreed, or the most crooked, or the most loyal party member,
When honest people are no longer loathed and reviled,
When honest people are no longer feared,
When less time is wasted,
When less resources are wasted,
When efficiency is continually improving,
and a long list of similar things,
THEN we will have the real solution to our problems.

In short form, when we start caring about other people and our planet as much as we care about ourself and our own home.

Where to begin: The lowbrow people could begin by trying to be more polite, not throwing garbage all around, using less profanity, getting out of the car on arrival and knocking on the door rather than honking for five minutes at 2:00am from the street.

Everyone could drive as if the lives of motorcyclists, playing children, the poor person on a bicycle &c are actually valuable, and quality driving rather than speed is of the essence.

Everyone could try to improve by being a little better in some way today than they were yesterday.

Try to share knowledge, especially with the young, and try to help others when possible. When not possible, at least pray for them.

It can be done, even now there is the possibility of starting a more heavenly earth.

There are many groups who have come to believe in killing others, that is the solution. But the real solution is:

THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

I will tell you a secret that I know for absolute sure:

Those who kill have NO RELATIONSHIP with God, nor ALLAH at all.

Their only relationship is with self-delusion.

And in a very short time the self-deluded will receive true, faultless heavenly justice.

And so will all the worthy people everywhere here.

And there will NEVER be any 'Star Wars' either.

And you can trust God for your deliverance no matter who you are or where you live -- China, Africa, the islands of the sea,
the far north or The Middle East.

Yes, something like that. I am more certain than I am eloquent.

Answer 3

You have to think what you just said about waste. What it would cost to ship garbage into outer space, you could figure out how to recycle this stuff into power and useful things. And then after that, it starts paying for itself, and then turns profitable. And yes, space is the answer to our problems, if we can survive till our sun peters out (that will be a miracle), in a few billion years, we will need to find a new place to live. And yes, science fiction turned to science fact.

Answer 4

Well, what an interesting idea...

A space garbage can...

As I see it, you wish to spend about $500,000 for every cup of garbage you wish to get rid of. Is that right? You know it costs about $ 800,000 (or more) per payload pound to launch something into outer space. So if you figure that every American household creates 40 pounds of garbage per household resident per week, sending the weeks' trash into outer space ought to take the combined earnings of everyone in your neighborhood for the rest of their lives.

Wouldn't it be easier to pull out the burnable items and send them to an incinerator; and hold the cans, glass, and plastic back for reuse elsewhere? Why use up all that rocket fuel on garbage?

Answer 5

It costs thousands of dollars to get one pound of equipment into orbit - and you want to send your garbage into the sun? Do you have any idea how much it would cost, just to send a week's worth of your garbage into the sun?

We can store a thousand year's worth of garbage in a spot out in Nebraska less than a mile on each side. No one will ever notice.

Answer 6

because it would cost too much money. Also, have you ever watched the episode of futurama where they sent a ball of waste into the sky years and years ago and one day it came back to haunt them? Any way it's our problem. If more people recycled everything that could be recycled we wouldn't have a problem with waste, i'm sure. Also if there are E.T.'s then i'm sure they'd be real annoyed that we took the liberty of loading our waste elsewhere.

Answer 7

It costs upwards of 200 million dollars to launch a satellite into space. If you don't mind giving 95% of your wages to taxes it is great idea!

P.S. They haven't developed a proper sling shot yet, or centrifuge, or whatever. When they do it will not be a garbage flinger. We are doing fine with recycling and compost so far.

Answer 8

well we would have to get a way to bring our waste there first. if we just dumped it off the 0 gravity could carry if off course and we'll end up with a bunch of trash floating around.

Answer 9

Got a shorter cut, J. Much EZR to contact the ET's and have them "take out the gargage".

Answer 10

GREAT IDEA! lets just have the whole world live as recklessly as your dumb american ***, then we can just shoot our nuclear sludge into space. Forgetting the TRILLIONS of dollars this opperation would cost its a perfect plan! In fact you can go watch the launch and ill laugh my *** when it there's a malfunction and the resulting explosion covers all of florida in a radioactive rain of death. Think before you speak...or better yet go play in the street.