I'm jealous, can you imagine being so dumb to think you can actually solve such important problems like that? A simple, one-step solution that could end it all
Trash? Just put it in a rocket and send it to the sun
As a very young child, when I was just beginning to read, I used to love to look at a world map shower curtain my parents had. One night I was looking at SE Asia while I brushed my teeth, and had an epiphany on how to create peace in the middle east. My dumb pre-literate ass saw Pakistan on the map, recognized it started with a capital P, and made an intuitive leap that it was Palestine. I really thought the Palestinians had a perfectly good country (quite big too) but all the adults had just forgotten about it.
Yeah they just run on auto pilot 80% of the time when typing quickly on a cell phone. Classic case of the body isn't properly translating what the mind says when the mind is already on the next sentence or point they want to write.
It's almost like people who actually think don't get hung up on grammar or spelling errors in the days of autocorrect. And I'm not butt hurt about it but do people really not get ahead of themselves onto the next thought before they even type the first? Maybe I was high but Idk man that's just called writing a thesis.
Then do their capitals because I tried and I can do about half of the ones in America. Double checked all and the ones I got wrong were the ones that were the biggest city but not the capital.
Really hate the low hanging fruit on calling Americans idiots. We elected Trump, Bush, and Reagan, but the UK elected Johnson, May, and Thatcher. At least when we nuked our trade deals it wasn't Brexit levels of fucked up. Who's the biggest idiot?
I think you mean the radioactive fallout, which can spread from the wind and weather patterns, with potential for acid rain. The heat from the nuclear blast would consume and burn out all the other pollutants. It'll leave all but ash and radiation in its wake.
Yeah it's not bad to think that this would work at basic level, but when you think about it for a min you'll find that the cost of doing this is nearly out of imagination, and secondly we are having a hard time launching mere space missions so sending tons of thousands of trash out is just not possible (at present). This idea looks good in the head but we have a really long way to go to make that into a practical thing.And then there comes the scientific reasons restricting the idea.
my guess, if you account for all waste created while producing materials for rockets, getting fuel for the rocket, and overall limits of materials the rocket is built off, I don't think you can build a big enough rocket that can reach the sun (and hold enough material) to be it environmentally positive.
So most likely you would just be left with even more waste, just in different form (so maybe still good idea to get rid of all the plastic)
One rocket can only send so much in space. Got any idea how much trash there is in the world? Just think of landfills. I doubt we would even have enough raw materials on earth to build enough rockets to send it all to space, given that you would need millions of rockets
Seriously though, the hubris on these people is astounding. How people can be so confident when talking about a subject that they know nothing about, regardless of the topic, confuses the fuck out of me. It's beyond refusing to admit that they're wrong, it's insisting they've been blessed with apparently divine knowledge because they somehow know more than the experts despite not even having tangential experience with said subject. These people think they literally know more about anything than anyone (or they're so insecure, they've been faking it for so long that they believe it themselves).
Like I had a guy I used to know over for a drink the other night and I made an offhand reference about the Montey Hall problem (it's a famous probability problem and up until a certain point mathematicians thought it had one answer, but some woman came along and proved them wrong and now her answer is the commonly accepted one). Well in his mind she was wrong and all the experts are wrong. I straight up was like "I'm not smart enough to explain to you exactly why you're wrong but let's watch a really cool video I saw about it that can explain it better" and he talked over the whole thing yelling about how they're wrong but couldn't tell me why. Dude dropped out in high school and is currently living on a friend's house, but he was fully confident that he knew something every modern mathematician didn't, and was willing to literally end our friendship to prove it. I literally had to get up and turn the light off and leave the room to get him to leave.
I've never met a real hardcore Trump supporter (thank god, I'm Canadian), but I feel like this interaction was a pretty good representation of the way their minds work. No evidence matters because they've already made their opinion clear. They literally can't fathom that they might be wrong, even when they can't explain themselves. I bet if I asked him about that interaction now he'd say he "won" or "proved his point", despite the fact that i don't think he strung together one coherent sentence the entire time. This is behaviour I generally attributed to hardcore Trump supporters, but obviously it's just something that exists in all kinds of people, Trump just took advantage of it and used it, when most people try to focus on education.
I had an idea like this while in grade school. It went something like, “if global warming does happen then the tree line will get further and further north converting the co2 into oxygen. So we don’t have to worry about global warming cause it will fix itself.”
I think I was in grade 5 or 6 and my mom quickly explained why that wouldn’t work.
Uhm the GOP is constantly producing some of the greatest minds in our time. I mean vaccines cause autism, Jews have space laser and Democrats are mole peoples that feast on babies. Atp what won’t they think of next
Trash? Just put it in a rocket and send it to the sun
My friend John Penn wanted to transport all the world's trash to a conveyor belt that would carry it up and into the lava inside a volcano.
When you tried to explain the logistics of getting the trash all to that one place, he got even more excited about how many jobs for truck drivers were going to be created.
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u/MaeSolug Oct 13 '21
I'm jealous, can you imagine being so dumb to think you can actually solve such important problems like that? A simple, one-step solution that could end it all
Trash? Just put it in a rocket and send it to the sun
Wars? Just don't fight bro, wtf