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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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[-] tasty4skin@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] jon 2 points 1 year ago

You will know us by the trail of our rubbish.

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