[rescue] Energy

[Timothy Hauber]

Yep, I encourage space litter, that way they'll all know we are trailer trash, and will have no qualms when it comes time to put in that galactic bypass...

Tim 

On Tue, 7 May 2002 22:59:21 -0700 (PDT)
Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez <lefa at cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > > > Or maybe we could just shove it all on a big space barge headed for the sun
> > > > and incinerate it?
> > > 
> > > Maybe another Sun, but I'd be concerned about how it might effect ours.
> > 
> > Negligible effect.  The sun is, after all, one big cuclear reactor...
> 
> Not really, the Sun operates by fision, not fusion. Nuclear power plants
> are really mislabeled, as there are many nuclear reactions (i.e. fusion in
> the sun that radiate large amounts of energy) but that have nothing to do
> with the actual decay/fision reactions that are used for current power
> generator.
> 
> The easiest way of getting rid of nuclear waste, or any other waste for
> that matter is to ship it to a random direction into space. As long as it
> leaves terrestial orbit, the shitpile will hurdle through space for eons,
> whith a chance of it hitting anything almost negligible.
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