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zipplewrath

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8. Until a failed launch

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 19, 2016, 02:08 PM

Feb 2016

This is all well and good until one of the launch vehicles fails and falls back to earth. There was a big kerfuffle several years ago when we launched a deep space probe with a spend plutonium electrical generator up. Imagine trying to launch a bunch-o-spent rods up.

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Space station astronauts give huge trash can the boot [View all] WhiteTara Feb 2016 OP

We should get rid of all the world's trash that way Orrex Feb 2016 #1

You mean just pollute space? nt WhiteTara Feb 2016 #2

Maybe we could send our spent nuclear waste rods into the sun Cleita Feb 2016 #5

No, just Bolivia snooper2 Feb 2016 #6

No, I mean send it up to the space station and have them dump it Orrex Feb 2016 #9

Oh, okay. nt WhiteTara Feb 2016 #11

Burn it up in the Earth's atmosphere? itsrobert Feb 2016 #4

Find a cost effective way to send it to the sun, along with nuclear waste snooper2 Feb 2016 #7

Until a failed launch zipplewrath Feb 2016 #8

This was already tried in the acclaimed documentary Superman IV Orrex Feb 2016 #10

If you see a big brown cloud in the sky EmperorHasNoClothes Feb 2016 #3