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   Nuno Silva to All   
   OT: Garbage disposal meets rocket scienc   
   24 Dec 25 11:19:47   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-24, Daniel70 wrote:   
      
   > On 23/12/2025 10:40 pm, Paul wrote:   
   [...]   
   >> Apparently, the garbage-to-Sun trajectory isn't all that easy.   
   >>   
   >> Jupiter might be an easier target.   
   >>   
   >> Once you're out of the gravity well, it does not matter where   
   >> the garbage goes, right ? The cloud cover over Jupiter, will hide   
   >> all the beer cans and Glad Garbage Bags.   
   >>   
   >> And a lot of research work has already gone into this. From 1969.   
   >>   
   >>     "Winnipeg Tribune photographer Frank Chalmers set up this image   
   >>     for the newspaper in November 1969."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.5725255,1600527189000/full/max/0/default.jpg   
   >> ?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C17%2C620%2C348%29%3BResize%3D1280   
   >>   
   >> You can see they've carefully considered the optimal design for   
   >> garbage disposal. "Orbit".   
   >>   
   >>   
   > The problem I see with that is that one day WE will inhabit some of   
   > the Moons of Jupiter and I wouldn't want our 'NOW' Garbage to be there   
   > waiting for us.   
      
   Besides, it could affect Europa too and we've been warned it isn't ours   
   to mess with.   
      
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   Nuno Silva   
      
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