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pondellynelf
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#22045601 - 08/05/15 02:11 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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How about we take all trash the toxic waste on the planet and just rocket it off into the sun? Problems solved no?
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No. Have any idea how much it costs to launch a rocket? It costs thousands of dollars per pound to launch shit into space. Think about that. To remove just one pound of trash/toxic waste, is several thousand dollars.
Imagine just sending an average garbage truck worth of trash into space. A rough calculation would give you about 12 million. That's 3 tons at 2000 a pound. That is a VERY generous estimate. Googling tells me the average dump truck holds almost 5 times that much. But I figured to illustrate the point I'd go with extremely conservative numbers. The average price per pound is also a lot higher than 2000.
In all honesty, to deal with the waste we have, it would probably be cheaper to figure out teleportation and just teleport that shit into the sun.
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Perhaps a sling shot may work
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Quote:
pondellynelf said: Idea
Someone should sell it to the general public to create a generation of super-mutants.
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we should repurpose and refine the toxic trash to meet other demands. whatever we figure those are. nothing wasted
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No, shut up with this recycle crap. Sling shots need no fuel, no love. They live to sling us...into the future
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It really is a glimpse into our inner workings when the topic of littering crosses over that boundary into flinging shit into outer space like the atmosphere was a big car window. We really are the universe's white trash trailor park, us earthlings..
It brings to mind that argument of maybe the reason we haven't made contact with extraterrestrial life yet is because they don't want shit to do with us..
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I bet you anything aliens rocket their trash into the nearest Sun. Seems like a great option. You can probably get around the cost eventually, and even at millions of dollars there's probably some stuff we'd rather see out of our atmosphere making the cost worth it.
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In all seriousness, things need to be fixed at a sociatal level. I wondered when I was younger, seeing litter, how everything isn't just drowning in refuse. No one will take responsibility. The room fills with water and we keepmsaying 'after you' for eternity until something goes bad. I couldn't imagine being a seancreature. One moment swimming, then bang, plastic for thousands of miles. What fucking satanic shit. You should be shot on sight if you litter. People who smoke cigarettes especially. You hit it and say'fuck me, my life doesn't matter' then toss it on the ground and spit in everyone's face. I walk over hundreds of cigs a day.
Fuck smokers. Take their filters away, kill them faster if possible. It's hard to really care about someone who does that.
For perspective, my gramma died a slow lung cancer two pack a day death. I am OK with tobacco, but cigarettes as we know them are a fast food like comodety that people suck down like candy, then discard. It's the mark of a truly deeply flawed person.
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I think it's a bit too late to turn things around

This shit is only getting worse every day
Society is doomed
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i've only seen pictures of that shit in Asiatic countries.
on a brighter note, i just read a few days ago that the 19 year old that hatched a plan to clean the world's oceans is having his plan put into action. his plan will be implemented in 2016
http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/02/boyan-slat-clean-ocean-plastic/
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Re: idea [Re: 404]
#22046067 - 08/05/15 08:03 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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We should just build a giant orbiting space station to live on and use the planet for industry and a land fill.
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FreeTheSoul
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Sea turtles will be extinct in no time. The sea turtle swallows plastic and becomes impacted because it thinks the plastic is jelly fish.
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that's just Darwinism
what kind of idiot eats plastic thinking it's a jellyfish
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Re: idea [Re: 404]
#22046405 - 08/05/15 09:37 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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404 said: i've only seen pictures of that shit in Asiatic countries.
on a brighter note, i just read a few days ago that the 19 year old that hatched a plan to clean the world's oceans is having his plan put into action. his plan will be implemented in 2016
http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/02/boyan-slat-clean-ocean-plastic/
It's a huge vortex of floating refuse in the Pacific Ocean
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
Just because it isn't in our backyard doesn't mean it doesn't affect us
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The answer has already been proposed by the OP then shot down immediately and here we are full circle. TO THE MOON ALICE!
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damn, that's pretty fucked
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Re: idea [Re: shadyy]
#22046486 - 08/05/15 10:12 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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how have I not known about this??


this is fucking awful!
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Re: idea [Re: shadyy]
#22046551 - 08/05/15 10:33 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah it's really sad
We have defiled Mother Earth with our materialistic existence
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We're environmental parasites.
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If Earth was a conscious organism the human race would be her cancer
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Re: idea [Re: shadyy]
#22046568 - 08/05/15 10:38 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Bricks. Made from compressed, non-recyclable plastics. Used to build low-cost housing.
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MAKE TRASH VALUABLE. People will stop "throwing it away."
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Edited by jesustripped (08/05/15 10:41 AM)
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CHeifM4sterDiezL
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what about the neutrally buoyant plastic?
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OhMrJohnson said: If Earth was a conscious organism the human race would be her cancer
She isn't, but Joe Rogan agrees, and he is pretty much cooler then anyone times a million
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Quote:
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404 said: i've only seen pictures of that shit in Asiatic countries.
on a brighter note, i just read a few days ago that the 19 year old that hatched a plan to clean the world's oceans is having his plan put into action. his plan will be implemented in 2016
http://ecowatch.com/2015/06/02/boyan-slat-clean-ocean-plastic/
It's a huge vortex of floating refuse in the Pacific Ocean
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
Just because it isn't in our backyard doesn't mean it doesn't affect us
yeah, i've just never seen a canoe way out that far in the middle of the pacific...
and i never said it doesn't affect us. the oceans are pretty paramount to the entire world operating correctly with the currents and huge swath of life that inhabits it. the pacific patch isn't the only one, there are other giant patches in the atlantic and indian oceans, and several other places as well. it's disgusting
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Re: idea [Re: 404]
#22051418 - 08/06/15 01:10 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I heard we are also getting them in the Great Lakes. It amazes me that the world wasnt polluted beyond repair decades ago
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wow, did a google search and you're right. that's deplorable. http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/12/new-concerns-about-plastic-pollution-in-great-lakes-garbage-patch/
i wonder how all this shit is getting in the oceans?
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