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What's the issue with shooting it off to space? The risk that it might go bang on the way up and irradiate everywhere around the launch site? Pissing off aliens?
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What's the issue with shooting it off to space?
Uses vast amounts of energy, even more if you want it out of earths orbit.
The risk that it might go bang on the way up and irradiate everywhere around the launch site?
Isn't the chance of a rocket launch going bang something like 1 in 100?
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What's the issue with shooting it off to space?
Hah. The low - but not that low given you'd need hundreds of rocket launches to get it all off world - chance of something going wrong resulting in the entire planet ending up uninhabitable.
jellybaby
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Related - can you safely bury nuclear waste underground for millennia?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62677534