I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason why we haven’t done this yet. Too expensive? Would launching it into the sun cause the smoke (if there is even smoke in space) to find its way back to Earth, therefore polluting the air?

This is an incredibly stupid question.

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    8 days ago

    Orbital mechanics makes launching stuff at the sun extremely difficult.

    The earth has a gigantic a molten layer under our feet, and we couldn’t even dump it down there. Too expensive and difficult.

    Long term, my guess is engineered super bacteria and/or robotics may clean up the trash in the future, if we don’t extinct ourselves first.