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TL;DR: Astronomical fuel costs + risk of explosion on launch
But the full read is a nice mellow introduction to the surprising realities of orbital mechanics.
From @startswithabang: https://astrodon.social/@startswithabang/113153582719004469
A bit that surprised me: if you actually want to dump waste outside the Earth, well, merits of that dubious idea aside, it’s far more efficient to get it into interstellar space than to get it to the sun. Huh!
@inthehands I mean this is just a Futurama episode waiting to happen.
@polotek
Oh, wow, yeah, it so is
@inthehands well, previous generations sent the Voyagers into interstellar space running on fumes and a poor excuse for a calculator as compute, but it took until the 2020s to get the Parker close to the sun... obviously there's other factors in there but it's a data point
@inthehands That was a great read. I would have assumed that the sun was an easy (unmissable?) target and we had already shot things into it.
@inthehands So much for my Big Hopes for Elon Musk!
@aubilenon
There’s always the Oort Cloud, I guess
@inthehands pollute the universe