re: #28 Gus 802

I meant to send it off on a straight trajectory. I know, “what if there was an accident.” OK, I guess I don’t have an answer. To be honest. It’s almost looking like we’ve become scared of ourselves. We’re not willing to take chances. I guess we’re all going on 9 volts DC here soon. :)

Even a “straight trajectory” would actually be a solar orbit, and since it came from Earth originally, that orbit would intersect Earth orbit with a potential for Bad Things®. Regardless, the amount of fuel required to get stuff up into space makes this way too costly which is why I think it would have to wait for a space elevator, or far less likely, antigravity/controlled dark energy.

Now its just better to drill a 2-3km hole into the Laurentian Craton and drop it all down there. Subduction zones would be good too as long as we are reasonably sure that the volcanos above them don’t spit nuclear waste right back out well before it diffuses in the mantle and takes a multi-million year journey to the mid-ocean ridges.