Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

CrJ418 t1_jdxz0yv wrote

Because it costs somewhere around $10,000 per pound to launch cargo into space.

2

Postnificent OP t1_jdy0n22 wrote

So we design a “ship” for the express purpose of pushing crap out of orbit. That’s it’s whole job. They are introducing the ideas of nuclear reactor propulsion etc to head straight to mars (yet another dumpster) when we should really clean up our backyard first. It would make things much safer.

2

BailysmmmCreamy t1_jdy28rm wrote

Still takes way less energy to just push it back into the atmosphere where it’ll burn up.

3