Why can't we just launch trash at the sun?

[scallion]

What with launches and unmanned rockets becoming cheaper and more the norm, and the rising worries about trash in the ocean and our orbit, why not just throw it at the sun and forget about it?

 

[TenMilesWide]

What if we launch it all at the sun and then find out we needed it for something? No thank you, leave it where it is.

 

[RollerGator]

Because that would make the sun explode or something dumbass

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

But then these people would lose their jobs!

 

[break these cuffs]

Where the fuck would Ray live you asshole? You ever think about the guy in the chair? Course not.

 

[PaulBearer]

Yes, our lifegiver, the very reason there exists anything, we should just lob our crap at it...that's gratitude for you.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

It may be getting cheaper to launch shit into space, but it's still way more expensive and complicated than just doing it the old fashioned way.

 

[TFT-A9]

Let's put a bunch of questionable shit on top of a huge missile and see what happens

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Overcast]

Because we might need that trash for the future.

 

[SandyCat]

What if the sun is sentient and gets pissed at us?

 

[Akashic Retard]

OP I think you have a great business idea here and I want in. I will give you 10 million in seed money but I want 51% ownership, anything less and I walk.

 

[Gorgar]

Because we lack the technology to launch the entirety of mainland China to the sun.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Why not Venus? It already has a greenhouse effect going on, is hotter than Mercury, and is closer to Earth.

 

[Skitarii]

Because that would waste rocket fuel dipshit

 

[Fireman Sam]

How about I launch YOU at the sun?

 

[NotAPony]

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Ralph is an excellent example. He went gold digging and huffed it really good.

 

[skjora]

Well you could just set it on fire, extract the heat energy to heat homes, and filter pollutants from the exhaust. Landfills are for retards.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Because each trash contains useful resources.

 

[Xolanite]

Because Vectorman will become real. Spoiler for Vectorman sperging.

Spoiler

in the future, humans send orbots to the sun from Earth to dump our trash. Raster, an orbot in some nuclear plant, gets exposed to nuclear waste and goes berserk, ordering his fellow orbots to kill all humans. Vectorman, unaffected because he was coming from a trip to the sun, sets forth on a quest to destroy Raster, now known as Warhead.

 

[Ishtar]

Serious answer-expense and logistics. Every rocket launched is one we aren't getting back.

You'd need to produce rockets like cars, and have cheap fuel to load all the earth's trash into them and then point them at the sun.