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t1_jc771n3 wrote

Just attach boosters to it to send it into deep space.

edit: Geez, I wasn't being serious, actually found the whole "deorbit tug" idea rather humorous.

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t1_jc783lw wrote

Big expensive boosters, lots of fuel: deep space

Smaller less expensive boosters: empty sector pacific ocean

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t1_jc79umr wrote

Yeah but that'll piss off the unexplained Tic Tac UFOs that reside in the Pacific Ocean and our leading cast from Independence Day is too old or cancelled, so they can't help us.

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t1_jc77wng wrote

I'm guessing you're unfamiliar with orbital physics

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t1_jc7bku4 wrote

I was thinking "Man, attempting to get the ISS complete orbit past Geostationary Orbit (the min level you'd be required to send it to) might cost nearly as much as building the damn thing did."

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t1_jc7k0uh wrote

just changing it's orbit to be on the plane of the equator would require so much fuel it'd be easier to build a new one instead.

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t1_jcajoxu wrote

Getting it equatorial is not needed. Just raise orbit beyond 36,000km. Which still needs a huge delta-v.

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t1_jcaqjuc wrote

True, I made my response based off some post I read a while ago about re-purposing the ISS as the lunar gateway. "just move it to the moon"

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t1_jc7b6b2 wrote

He never watched Futurama where the space trash ball returns to earth.

You see, humans tried to send our trash to the sun... problem solved.

But then again the trash ball took orbit and then eventually returned to earth.

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t1_jc7bsmf wrote

Yup. And the cool part about "let's take our trash and ship it to the sun!" is that hitting the sun is very difficult. Lot less fuel is needed and easier aiming if you blast out to, say, Jupiters orbit, slow down , and then let the sun pull it in.

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t1_jc7ex9g wrote

Nah forget the boosters. Small umamed rocket. Use a claw to lower a rope down to earth. Then I'll just pull it out of the sky.

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t1_jc79ah8 wrote

Whatever you throw into space risks coming back to you eventually.

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t1_jc7agic wrote

Yeah there is a Saturn V stage orbiting the sun right now, swings by the earth every 40 years, its supposed to actually hit us in 2000 years or so, which I am sure will be amusing for the astronomers of the day.

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t1_jcajbt9 wrote

Unless you lift it up to beyond geostationary orbit which takes a huge delta-v.

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