Re: Are we ruining the solar system?

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

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:39:48 GMT

Kaido Kert wrote:
>
> Christopher James Huff <cjameshuff@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<cjameshuff-614795.21374715062004@news04.east.earthlink.net>...
> > 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?
> >
> > Really, the stuff may be useful someday.
> You can always make more.
> Its more likely that we might wanna use uncontaminated Jupiter later,
> for mining volatiles or who knows what.

   Whatever we drop in it would end up below any areas of interest (and
accessability) in very short order. If cometary impacts couldn't do
permanent damage, it's not easy to see how we could, either... 

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