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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.

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[-] wagoner@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always try to think of these things at their greater extreme left unchecked, in order to evaluate if it's worth caring about. How about when there are so many bags and abandoned transport equipment that it starts to become harder to land safely? What if we finally start to have a base on there, and the trash becomes unsightly and a nuisance?

[-] ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

For that to even remotely be an issue there would need to be millions of moon landings. If we reach that point we could probably easily yeet our fecal waste into deep space if we needed to.

[-] wagoner@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

Ah, the Earthling approach: "let's worry about it later"

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's worked out fine so far!

[-] sonovebitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

T-shirt gunning your poop bags out of moon's orbit. Sounds rad.

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