TheHermitofHuron t1_isk3mdr wrote on October 16, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Reply to comment by zenith654 in The Solar System Isn’t Ready to Deal With Humanity’s Garbage by Maxcactus

I know it isnt practical.

I am saying if humanity could create enough waste that it was a problem in the vacuum of space, pushing it towards the sun would solve the problem.

Which we do not have the means to pollute the vacuum of space, so I am saying if we did, the technology to send the debris in a specific direction would probably not be a far stretch.

zenith654 t1_isk47g9 wrote on October 16, 2022 at 4:19 PM

Low Earth Orbit is already pretty polluted actually. It’s just that this article talks about planetary bodies and interplanetary orbits which is way more vast