You’d think at least they would see the massive incinerator in the middle of the solar system if we are too stupid to properly recycle instead of using possibly viable real estate.
More than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or “space junk,” are tracked by the Department of Defense’s global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Much more debris — too small to be tracked, but large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions — exists in the near-Earth space environment.
Something to be said for that. Of course in order to fill the moon that full, we’d have to get the population of Earth up into the 30 to 70 billions… and even with manufacturing and food production off planet, I don’t think we can do that (certainly SHOULD not).
No laughing matter!! Who’s to say we won’t use the Moon as a landfill, and we already have junk strewn all over Mars!! And that’s just the beginning!!!
Actually, the Sun is the hardest place in the Solar System to reach. It only takes a change of about 9 km/sec to use Jupiter’s gravity to toss things into interstellar space, but you need a change of 30 km/sec to get to the Sun, which involves more than ten times as much energy per pound of trash.
and humans’ joy, absolute joy and DeJoy’s relish with squirting Heinz without end into every nook and cranny of a Bloodied Moon. Throw in onions, chili, and you done got a Varsity dog, not a junior varsity but an Atlanta special it’ll knock you off your socks dog.
I seem to recall reading that a 100 square mile land fill would be more than enough for all the trash that we would ever create. So the problem is actually location.
When a species over-populates it’s environment it, by some natural means, gets culled back. Problem is one species has the ability to alter it’s environment and thwart nature’s attempt’s to control it. Seems like so many of the dire issues we’re facing today all stem from a single source, that nobody wants to talk about, too many humans. Can we, once again, engineer our way out of our self created mess? Can we reach a point where we all realize we’re all in this together? I hope so, then we could all live like Star Trek is prognostication.
I was thinking the extra mass of trash (see what I did there?) would cause the gravity to increase and begin moving towards the Earth again. The world will then be destroyed in 2.5 billion years.
We’ll be mining our garbage dumps for minerals and hydrocarbons long before it will be economically profitable to dump our garbage on other planets or into the Sun. It costs a fortune to carry a few pounds as far the Moon.
It’s so true. That’s why almost every Sci-Fi movie or show that has humanity spreading across the universe is portrayed negatively due to human arrogance of military industrial and corporate agendas. LOL
After the last Mars probe/rover landed I left a comment on their social media page expressing my concerns over all the trash the landing had generated.
It was not as well received as I had hoped. Evidently, scientists are slobs and they don’t care.
@SCORPIO, And the funny thing about what you said about the “Massive Incinerator” Picture this then; if you could see into the future, you’ll see that we are actually circling in that ginormous drain towards that incinerator, So, it’s all good
I am very proud that both my sons are in careers to “help the planet”. My eldest is a fish biologist with the US Department if Fish and Wildlife researching endangered species in Washington State, and my youngest is a nuclear engineer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, keeping nuclear power plants safe and ensuring new ones are built safe, i.e. alternative energy. The family joke when they earned their master’s degrees was that they both shrank the family carbon footprint so much that I could get a Hummer. (That was when Hummers were all over the place, and I would NEVER DRIVE THAT BEHEMOTH!) At the time my little 14 year-old Volvo V40 wagon got about 28 mpg all suburban-street driving.
Scorpio Premium Member about 3 years ago
You’d think at least they would see the massive incinerator in the middle of the solar system if we are too stupid to properly recycle instead of using possibly viable real estate.
saobadao about 3 years ago
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html
More than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or “space junk,” are tracked by the Department of Defense’s global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Much more debris — too small to be tracked, but large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions — exists in the near-Earth space environment.
Ed A. about 3 years ago
Sure that’s not “exploit the universe”?
Concretionist about 3 years ago
Something to be said for that. Of course in order to fill the moon that full, we’d have to get the population of Earth up into the 30 to 70 billions… and even with manufacturing and food production off planet, I don’t think we can do that (certainly SHOULD not).
C about 3 years ago
Most take the easy way out
Superfrog about 3 years ago
I just hope they put all the rubbish on the dark side.
fairportfan about 3 years ago
https://youtu.be/8Ey6PQsWeX4?t=1101
eastern.woods.metal about 3 years ago
Humankind has already left some junk on the Moon and on Mars.
Cornelius Noodleman about 3 years ago
That takes care of the New York City trash.
wallylm about 3 years ago
Can any do the math to see how much trash/mass to transfer from the Earth to the moon to alter gravity enough to draw the moon closer to here?
STEPUP about 3 years ago
No laughing matter!! Who’s to say we won’t use the Moon as a landfill, and we already have junk strewn all over Mars!! And that’s just the beginning!!!
cseligman about 3 years ago
Actually, the Sun is the hardest place in the Solar System to reach. It only takes a change of about 9 km/sec to use Jupiter’s gravity to toss things into interstellar space, but you need a change of 30 km/sec to get to the Sun, which involves more than ten times as much energy per pound of trash.
Doug K about 3 years ago
What a waste?
What a waste of waste?
jessie d. about 3 years ago
and humans’ joy, absolute joy and DeJoy’s relish with squirting Heinz without end into every nook and cranny of a Bloodied Moon. Throw in onions, chili, and you done got a Varsity dog, not a junior varsity but an Atlanta special it’ll knock you off your socks dog.
Qiset about 3 years ago
I seem to recall reading that a 100 square mile land fill would be more than enough for all the trash that we would ever create. So the problem is actually location.
wrloftis about 3 years ago
Agent Smith was right about us.
Count Olaf Premium Member about 3 years ago
That’s not the moon. It is San Francisco.
descabro about 3 years ago
We may need to invent the unmanned garbage truck…oops, probably already have ’em….
khmo about 3 years ago
why I am against NASA sending people and junk to other planets
dflak about 3 years ago
My former boss is in the recycling business. He says that he talks trash and that business is picking up.
1953Baby about 3 years ago
I thought a lot of that was just whirling in orbit around the earth. . .
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I’m thinking we will end up burying the organic and burning everything else. Maybe not now, but sooner or later.
bbenoit about 3 years ago
When a species over-populates it’s environment it, by some natural means, gets culled back. Problem is one species has the ability to alter it’s environment and thwart nature’s attempt’s to control it. Seems like so many of the dire issues we’re facing today all stem from a single source, that nobody wants to talk about, too many humans. Can we, once again, engineer our way out of our self created mess? Can we reach a point where we all realize we’re all in this together? I hope so, then we could all live like Star Trek is prognostication.
pheets about 3 years ago
Cynically … and sadly… accurate.
fusilier about 3 years ago
https://images.app.goo.gl/AsLciQe2hwjeunau6
Just Sayin’
fusilier
James 2:24
Map_One about 3 years ago
I was thinking the extra mass of trash (see what I did there?) would cause the gravity to increase and begin moving towards the Earth again. The world will then be destroyed in 2.5 billion years.
LightWarriorK about 3 years ago
The Simpsons covered this. “Springfield, Plan B.”
As did Wall-E, when “Operation: Cleanup” failed, the Fred Willard doomed humanity to survive in space.
monya_43 about 3 years ago
Goes to show you that garbage and trash are forever. It’ll decompose eventually, but not within our lifetime.
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
We’ll be mining our garbage dumps for minerals and hydrocarbons long before it will be economically profitable to dump our garbage on other planets or into the Sun. It costs a fortune to carry a few pounds as far the Moon.
KEA about 3 years ago
too true to be funny
ndblackirish97 about 3 years ago
It’s so true. That’s why almost every Sci-Fi movie or show that has humanity spreading across the universe is portrayed negatively due to human arrogance of military industrial and corporate agendas. LOL
mindjob about 3 years ago
And that’s just after a couple of years of human colonization
p1op2cor3n about 3 years ago
Wouldn’t work no gravity.
txmystic about 3 years ago
Learn space-based sustainability in a station built at L1. THEN move on to other places, using L1 as a staging area. Repeat at L4 and L5.
Earth and Moon L2s are getting crowded with Chinese tech. Best get going, NASA…
198.23.5.11 about 3 years ago
Don’t go to Mars.You’ll wake up Abbott&Costello.
David_J Premium Member about 3 years ago
After the last Mars probe/rover landed I left a comment on their social media page expressing my concerns over all the trash the landing had generated.
It was not as well received as I had hoped. Evidently, scientists are slobs and they don’t care.
sufamelico about 3 years ago
@SCORPIO, And the funny thing about what you said about the “Massive Incinerator” Picture this then; if you could see into the future, you’ll see that we are actually circling in that ginormous drain towards that incinerator, So, it’s all good
T Smith about 3 years ago
I would think we’d run out of stuff to make new crap long before we’d run out of places to dump our old crap.
falcon_370f about 3 years ago
Star Trek Voyager; the Malon
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 3 years ago
Better to recycle every last bit of it.
JenSolo02 about 3 years ago
I am very proud that both my sons are in careers to “help the planet”. My eldest is a fish biologist with the US Department if Fish and Wildlife researching endangered species in Washington State, and my youngest is a nuclear engineer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, keeping nuclear power plants safe and ensuring new ones are built safe, i.e. alternative energy. The family joke when they earned their master’s degrees was that they both shrank the family carbon footprint so much that I could get a Hummer. (That was when Hummers were all over the place, and I would NEVER DRIVE THAT BEHEMOTH!) At the time my little 14 year-old Volvo V40 wagon got about 28 mpg all suburban-street driving.
goblue86 about 3 years ago
Seen on a t-shirt:
Earth First
(picture of the earth from space)
We’ll mine the other planets later.
DaBump Premium Member about 3 years ago
I feel so sorry for this cartoonist.
lindz.coop Premium Member about 3 years ago
And dump their sh*t
bakana about 3 years ago
The Real secret of how Stars get surrounded by Dyson Spheres.
Laurie Stoker Premium Member about 3 years ago
So that’s what you’re calling it, Wiley?
robhanold about 3 years ago
We’re doomed.
Bicycle Dude about 3 years ago
If we can’t take care of our own planet responsibility, why do we think another planet is a viable option for mankind.