Re: Are we ruining the solar system?

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:39:44 GMT

Christopher James Huff wrote:
>
> In article <40CF8E1D.526A26D9@frontiernet.net>,
> Joann Evans <bondage@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> > If we wanted to dispose of high-level nuclear waste in the Sun (and
> > before anyone asks, that won't affect the Sun, either), it would be
> > energetically easier to launch it toward Jupiter to get this effect,
> > rather than try to send it directly to the Sun from Earth.
>
> And in that case, why not just dump it into Jupiter?

   Some have proposed that, too. Certainly we have the precedent of
Galileo's RTGs, even though it was disposed of in Jupiter, not because
it had radioactive components, but because it wasn't sterile, and left
uncontrolled, might've impacted and contaminated the surface of Europa.
(Volcanic Io was considered for a Galileo impact too...wastes could
possibly be sent there as well.)
 
> Really, the stuff may be useful someday. If you must get it off-planet,
> just drop it in some hole on the Moon.

   All in all, I agree. (Now if people won't take 'Space: 1999'
literally...)
  

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