At 04:20 PM 7/2/01, Chad Cooper wrote:
>... And let's face it...firing a little radioactive
> > waste into the
> > sun isn't about to hurt it...
> >
> > Andy
> > Dawn Falcon
>
>It won't hurt the sun, but would it not be ejected back at us in the future?
>Throwing heavy metals at the sun, will only vaporize the metal. I am
>definitely not a rocket scientist, but I don't think that the surface
>temperature of the sun is enough to cause fission, and probably not fusion,
>of these heavy metals, which means they will be ejected back to us, at very
>fast speeds.
There is already far more uranium in the Sun than there is on Earth.
>Also,
>
>What if we missed! Sure the sun is big, but failures can occur. I could see
>small little radioactive comet-like canisters zooming around the sun, and
>then heading back towards us in an elliptical orbit around the sun. Heavy
>radioactive metal bit raining down on us would really suck! Even worse would
>be one big chunk coming back as us a high velocity.
>
>Maybe Alberto can provide comment as to whether throwing rocks at Sol is a
>threat. Will they boomerang back at us if we miss?
That's a possibility . . .
>Is not the core of the Earth extremely radioactive? Is it not safer to dig a
>DEEP hole to drop these babies in. How deep of a hole do you need to dig to
>truly bury radioactive waste?
>
>Nerd From Hell
Project Mohole comes to mind . . .
-- Ronn! :)
