Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.::There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.
forgive me for not caring too much but 100 bags of waste on the moon is not only nothing, but there’s not even an environment to destroy there. i’ll worry about moon waste after we start taking care of all the waste here on earth that’s actually affecting us.
Yeah I’m not sure what the point about the moon waste is considering it’s likely inside the remainins of lunar landers. The real space junk to worry about is all the stuff in LEO that will cause problems with satellites and such in the near future
In all likelihood, it’s actually quite literally just in bags sitting on the moon as I am pretty sure that at least the early LM designs didn’t have external storage compartments where it could be stored in considering the ascent stages left the moon.
Still not something I would really be concerned about though.
Unforgiven, the anti-space argument is always the same. “Let’s focus on earth first” Earth is always going to have problems, this mindset gets us nowhere. It’s not like the people thinking about the space poop problem would all be hard at work solving earth poop problems if they weren’t allowed to think about space waste. These things are so incredibly not mutually exclusive. Furthermore, it’s entirely possible that some out of box thinking about how to manage moon waste ends up making for a creative solution for earth waste management that has a huge impact. Perhaps we need little packets of genetically modified yeast placed in moon poop bags to eat up the waste, and it turns out that putting that in Portapotties helps with odor, decontamination and insect burden. Who knows. It’s never too soon to seriously start thinking about space problems.
Many eons from now, some future species will find our shit on the moon and conclude that earth bacteria created their own space program.
Out of all types of space junk, I’d be least worried about stuff on the surface of the moon. If anything, these piles of human waste contain the gut bacteria of the astronauts and was exposed to decades of radiation, temperatures and extreme conditions. It will be an interesting thing to study once they’ll be able to create a research lunar base.
Still less shit than the sidewalks in my street
I’m not too worried about junk on the Moon, it’s not going anywhere. Space junk is an issue though, but it’s the objects in orbit that are the problem.
Okay, how is there that many bags on the moon? Were the astronaut shitting dozens of times, or did they use the poop knife and divide it up?
12 men have visited the surface of the moon, so each would have to shit, piss or puke in a bag fewer than 10 times per visit to make 100.
They were lazy dog walker who left them behind for someone else
Build a moon trebuchet, and fling that shit into the sun
That’s future fertilizer to be used on the upcoming moon farms.
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So what if in like 1000 years, a mound builds, and we decide we need to get rid of that mound and just launch a rocket or something at it to send it into space. Then the poo collects in space and forms a satellite around the moon so we can have a poo moon for the moon.
we are already the poo moon
- aaand we enter the lands of the three body problem.
If space has one thing it is lots of space.
