Would this be any more practical than launching it into the sun? Or less? It would take a ton of money and work to dig a big cavity out of the ocean floor. It’s an honest question, I want to know which crazy idea is less crazy.
Launching things into the sun is actually really hard. You essentially have to slowdown the payload from the velocity of the Earth’s orbit, all the way to zero. Otherwise it just becomes another thing orbiting the sun.
I tried looking it up, and I remembered I’m not smart enough to understand all of the techno-jargon. But what I did understand is that it would take a large rocket with a butt-tonne of fuel, and that right there makes me think it wouldn’t be worth it due to cost and environmental factors of burning so much fuel. And, there is a monumental amount of garbage.
Would this be any more practical than launching it into the sun? Or less? It would take a ton of money and work to dig a big cavity out of the ocean floor. It’s an honest question, I want to know which crazy idea is less crazy.
It would actually be substantially easier to send things out of the solar system than to crash them into the sun.
Launching things into the sun is actually really hard. You essentially have to slowdown the payload from the velocity of the Earth’s orbit, all the way to zero. Otherwise it just becomes another thing orbiting the sun.
I tried looking it up, and I remembered I’m not smart enough to understand all of the techno-jargon. But what I did understand is that it would take a large rocket with a butt-tonne of fuel, and that right there makes me think it wouldn’t be worth it due to cost and environmental factors of burning so much fuel. And, there is a monumental amount of garbage.