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Let’s launch our garbage into the sun!
Ummm, no. Earth is messy. So can’t we just send our junk somewhere else? Aside from the moral quandaries raised by such poor stewardship of our already disheveled solar system, Earthlings probably haven’t made a habit of beaming literal garbage into space yet because we simply can’t afford to. Full video: #pollution #science #space
@Nmethyltransferase
April 25, 2026 at 2:02 pm
First hurdle for leveling up on the Kardashev Scale.
@CeeJMantis
April 25, 2026 at 2:14 pm
Have they not SEEN Futurama?
@Ceelvain
April 26, 2026 at 1:34 am
So, the solution to garbage coming back is sending another ball of trash? xD
@MrLilc0984
April 25, 2026 at 2:17 pm
1. Can’t send anything pass the Van Allen belt. It’s impossible to penetrate at this time, regardless of what you wanna believe on TV.
2. The sun is local and not 1000 times the size of the earth. So the trash wouldn’t fit there anyway. 😅
@AnonymousFreakYT
April 25, 2026 at 4:20 pm
WTF? You know the only reason we even *KNOW* about the Van Allen belt is because we launched spacecraft through it, right?
If you believe that the Van Allen belt exists, then you believe we have launched spacecraft through it.
If you don’t believe in spacecraft, then can’t believe the Van Allen belt exists.
@thanksfernuthin
April 25, 2026 at 2:42 pm
The idea we have no place to put garbage is the easiest hoax to debunk out of them all. DIG ANOTHER FUCKING HOLE. The landfill crisis was ridiculous from the beginning.
@cggc9510
April 25, 2026 at 10:22 pm
This has got to be a bot or rage bait.
@FuchsDanin
April 25, 2026 at 2:50 pm
How about the fact that (anyone) literally couldn’t hit the sun with something if they tried, due to the insane difficulty in aiming at something exerting that much force. The SLIGHTEST sideward motion would result in it slingshotting around the sun instead of impacting it.
@AnonymousFreakYT
April 25, 2026 at 4:19 pm
One of the odd things about orbital mechanics is that it is actually *HARD* to launch something to the sun from Earth. It takes more energy to cause something to hit the sun than it does to have it leave our solar system.
@MrNegative101
April 25, 2026 at 10:21 pm
I’m mean literally yeah you’re right but that’s not what people are talking about when they refer to that you don’t have to get anywhere near the sun for the sun’s heat and light output to be enough to destroy you people just want to send the trash into space and have it be destroyed by the sun and that’s not hard to do at all.
@fantasysscience
April 25, 2026 at 10:43 pm
Can we drop the trash into the core of the earth instead of the Sun?
@bba935
April 26, 2026 at 9:25 am
Would be better to recycle more of what we can, and learn how to recycle or not use what we can’t.
@parker73724
April 26, 2026 at 4:09 pm
I feel like this video vastly understates how impossible this idea is. There isn’t enough fuel on earth to thrust all of our trash into space, let alone enough materials to build the rockets. Even if every single human devoted 100% of their time and effort into launching trash into space this would still be impossible.
@MrNegative101
April 27, 2026 at 10:01 am
You only have to use rocket fuel when you’re talking about sending living things into space bc of the G forces. there’s nothing stopping us from building a trash rail gun.
@DarkHorseSki
April 27, 2026 at 10:44 am
Though we do need to figure out how we can start eliminating the trash we have in orbit. And, there could well be a point in the future where launching things into space might be cheap enough to make it an option…