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Is it ethical to launch trash into space?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) March 30th, 2011

Given that technology would reach the point where it would be cost effective to launch things into space that we didn’t want on earth; would it be ethical to just shoot something into oblivion.

For instance, spent nuclear fuel, which poses a potential danger to us, could just be shot into deep space.

I would say shoot it into the sun, but maybe that would start changing the suns chemistry??

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