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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?
@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.
@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.