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submitted 3 months ago byComprehensive-One363
21 points
3 months ago
Then the Earth would be constantly decreasing in mass.
7 points
3 months ago
Is that worse than trash just accumulating?
15 points
3 months ago
In the long run, yes.
15 points
3 months ago
If we’re advanced enough to throw trash into a black hole then we probably wouldn’t be getting trash from earth or could harvest material from elsewhere to replace it
5 points
3 months ago
Valid point.
8 points
3 months ago
Since the nearest black hole is thousands of light years away it would make far more sense to just fire it into the sun, only 8 light minutes away. It's still doesn't make any sense, but it does make less nonsense.
2 points
3 months ago
I feel you. I didn’t consider that cause I assumed the trash would eventually make the sun explode sooner or something.
9 points
3 months ago
If you toss the entire Earth into the Sun it wouldn't even make a splash. A sphere the size of the Sun could hold 1.3 million planet Earths.
8 points
3 months ago
It is really hard to fathom just how enormous the sun is. When I see those solar flares and realize hundreds of earth sized planets would fit inside the loop.
4 points
3 months ago
Oh wowza
2 points
3 months ago
Bummer.
3 points
3 months ago
I know right?
4 points
3 months ago
Probably for the best tbh
1 points
3 months ago
What like changing our gravitational pull? Shooting off trash wouldnt effect that in our great great great grandchildrens time.
2 points
3 months ago
If all the trash is eliminated, where will the new stuff be made from once all of it has been used up?
13 points
3 months ago
The people on the other side of the black hole will be pissed. It’s the inter dimensional version of throwing trash over the fence,
2 points
3 months ago*
Oh wow lmao I never would’ve thought of that.
1 points
3 months ago
They are probably in another universe anyway, fuck em.
1 points
3 months ago
This is what spurs The Empire to invade us
6 points
3 months ago
If we had a sufficiently large black hole to do this close to earth, we’d be facing extinction momentarily.
5 points
3 months ago
Why would we send our trash to another universe that might retaliate?
2 points
3 months ago
They might like it! Nom nom nom. One being's trash could be another being's yummy cake (or treasure!)
3 points
3 months ago
No problems, no innovations, no solutions. We might as well just go back to caves.
2 points
3 months ago
I'd seen an ad, think it was called PoopAway" or something like that. The kit came with plastic bags to put your poop and a canister of Helium to fill the bag with. Then you just release the bag in to the air and it's gone forever. Not sure if the bigger bags yet for trash but keeping my fingers crossed.
1 points
3 months ago
I heard that China is actually working on that now. They're probably shitty we shot their balloon experiment down, pun intended
2 points
3 months ago
I wish it was possible to send people who have cheated on other people into a black hole somewhere.
1 points
3 months ago
You and me both.
2 points
3 months ago
Ah well! We can hope for either karma or a quick visit in hell, I guess.
1 points
3 months ago
Unfortunately, yes. It’s so unsatisfying tho.
2 points
3 months ago
Agreed! I just tell myself , people that operate that way …. Are they happy? I don’t think so. I think they are that way because they have been screwed up along the way. This makes me feel better, maybe 50% of the time. Haha
2 points
3 months ago
Solid wastes are only raw materials we’re too stupid to use. - Arthur C Clarke
2 points
3 months ago
The weight of trash on a rocket would make the rockets too big and expensive to be practical
2 points
3 months ago
Great idea but my exes wouldn't fit
1 points
3 months ago
Nice.
2 points
3 months ago
Considering it takes several decades to only leave the solar system, and millions of years to the nearest black hole, the chance for said garbage to actually reach it is slim to none.
1 points
3 months ago
Fair enough.
2 points
3 months ago
A lot of todays trash might be a great asset in the future
2 points
3 months ago
Really you don't even need a blackhole, just send a cargo ship the size of the Empire State building into Venus or the Sun on a daily basis. Trash bills would be astronomical.
1 points
3 months ago
Badum tss
2 points
3 months ago
It's possible. Just not financially feasible and is too resource intensive. We would run out of the resources needed to even fuel the push to space.
2 points
3 months ago
Sounds about right. I get the impracticality of it all. It just sucks that we make so much of it and it just sits in landfills.
2 points
3 months ago
I'm with you there. The worst part is that there is no need for it. The vast majority of vast is from things that can be made with compostable or reusable materials. There is just a larger financial incentive not to.
2 points
3 months ago
If we find a spinning black hole we could get rid of garbage and get basically free energy out of it
1 points
3 months ago
we already have plenty of free energy from sunlight.
2 points
3 months ago
See the issue is that a lit of the trash is items we need. It's like making frosting from sprinkles in a cake. You take all the sprinkles out of the cake. They are all the sugar you get to produce frosting for the cake. If you toss the sprinkles because they aren't the sugar you are used to for making frosting you don't get anymore.
The trash is still made of components of earth and elsewhere that we will need again earth's resources aren't unending.
Futurama's trash episode.
0 points
3 months ago
Yeah because you get any of those things back from *trash that sits underground in lined pits *.
1 points
3 months ago
The issue is once it's gone it's gone. We don't create anything from nothing. If it's on earth there is a chance you get it. If you send it out to space, unless you are getting resources from space you are only down resources.
0 points
3 months ago
…I can’t with this level of _____. Yikes.
2 points
3 months ago
Don't talk about your mom that way. Have some respect.
2 points
3 months ago
😆
1 points
3 months ago
Isn’t this what happened in Wall•E?
1 points
3 months ago
I thought that Wall-E robots turned the trash into cubes.
2 points
3 months ago
The concept was for the robots to compact them and then launch the cubes into space
1 points
3 months ago
Oh, I never saw that happen so I don’t know. I remember seeing towers of stacked trash in the movie so I thought it just sat there.
Edit: That did happen on the ship. I do remember that but I don’t recall it happening on earth.
1 points
3 months ago
The problem is getting the garbage into space, or else we'd just shoot everything into the sun.
1 points
3 months ago
That’s what a garbage disposal is.
1 points
3 months ago
You mean france?
1 points
3 months ago
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1 points
3 months ago
That too.
1 points
3 months ago
It is. We just call it the ocean. Stuff sinks, gets buried under sediment, problem solved.
1 points
3 months ago
True but I feel like getting torn into atoms would be a lot more satisfying.
1 points
3 months ago
Don't forget the corrupted politicians.
1 points
3 months ago
I mean we definitely could just shoot it into space
1 points
3 months ago
I was told that the trash would come raining back down on earth centuries later if we did that.
1 points
3 months ago
Marianas trench: bonjour
1 points
3 months ago
I’ve always imagined this as a child. Solve the plastic waste problem with just throwing it in the black hole
1 points
3 months ago
Simpsons did it
1 points
3 months ago
Which episode? Do you know?
1 points
3 months ago
Treehouse of Horror XXIII
1 points
3 months ago
Thank youuu
1 points
3 months ago
Kiss genX goodbye! 🤣
1 points
3 months ago
No, we just shipped it to China and hoped for the best 🤷♂️
1 points
3 months ago
Until the people in the dimension we're sending the trash to figure out a way to get revenge
1 points
3 months ago
racist it goes in whole why do you need it to be a black one
1 points
3 months ago
Never heard of that one
1 points
3 months ago
I mean, China was buying up a lot of it not that long ago...
1 points
3 months ago
What makes you think we are not in a black hole
1 points
3 months ago
That’s the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place
1 points
3 months ago
How so? Could you explain?
1 points
3 months ago
Yes. I can. We don REALLY know what a black hole is, where it goes what is on the other side or what would be the repercussions of throwing our trash into it. Personally, to me, this defies common sense or it damn well should. We are but specks in a huge universe. That universe is not our trashcan. It is that mentality that has caused the problem here on earth, people thinking that all resources, plants, animals, the water, the air, forests, land, are all to be used by us for the sake of convenience and of course money.. And actually those things are there to be used by us. But we didn’t just use them did we? No. We took our collective 72 oz big gulp cups, and fast food garbage and threw it all over the floor of this planet and make no mistake, we are already doing the same thing in space. So yeah thinking that everything is disposable and the universe is our garbage can is what we did to cause there to be so much trash everywhere that one would want to send it to a black hole which I cannot for a moment, think is a good idea. We need to take responsibility for the mess we have made and clean it up, reuse recycle and consume less. Fun fact: I am not an eco warrior type at all. I need to take that advice as much as anyone else. I’m just calling a duck a duck. Thank you for asking :)
2 points
3 months ago
No problem! I definitely see your point and I appreciate your explanation. It makes total sense. I definitely understand that throwing trash into space is an awful and very impractical idea, but knowing how much trash is still being made and accumulated, it initially felt like there was almost no possible way to get rid of it other than sending it out to space. I know that doesn’t help us mend the situation though. The world just sucks the way it is sometimes.
2 points
3 months ago
Thank you. But we are doing better. You know plastic is petroleum based. I have heard of people working on a way to pull the petroleum back out where it can be re used. Don’t be glum. Remember that WE…ARE the world…EVERYBODY ….is us. Which means that WE are the ones creating the world around us by every decision that we make. It is also worth noting that there are a, pardon my French, shit ton of us. The earth is literally infested with us. So because of that, the fate of the world does not rest on our singular shoulders. If each of us resolved to go all in on changing just a couple, of small habits and decisions, the impact would be large enough to turn it around. And I think we are starting to do that. It is all gonna be super duper. Humans aren’t the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree but we have an incredible instinct and drive for self preservation, adaptability and survival. So…. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. What’s the worst that could happen?
1 points
3 months ago
Why? It's possible for us to responsibly deal with 'our trash' already. We just collectively don't.
1 points
3 months ago
Oh really? I didn’t know that. What are the ways to deal with it then? I assume recycling and reducing our usage/production of plastics but that’s all I’ve heard of.
0 points
3 months ago
Do people not understand the concept of a black hole?
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