It is most definitely not ideal at all, but I honestly think shooting all the trash humans produce out into the depths of space would be better than dumping it all in the Earth. There would be less pollution, and life in the universe is so so rare, the best we can tell. The only life we know to exist is here, of course, so I think it would be very unlikely our trash would have a tremendous negative effect on life elsewhere. The ideal thing would obviously to not produce trash like we do.
This kind of thinking makes me sick. Instead of finding an actual problem to our solution, the typical human reaction is just to find a "better" place to hide their mistakes. It's like a fucking child hiding all the crap in his room underneath his bed instead of cleaning up.
"Well, since we absolutely CANNOT stop producing large amounts of disgusting fucking garbage we might as well just dump it where no one is looking." and "Space, is REALLY REALLY big so it won't matter."
That's the same kind of thinking that is causing 90% of our ocean's wildlife to become extinct due to trawling. "Well, the ocean is huge, so lets just scrape and vacuum all the life out of it. What could possibly go wrong? It won't matter, at least in our lifetimes."
Turns out, we were wrong. Humans have been wrong over, and over, and over again. It's completely idiotic to think that any idea we have won't be found out to be wrong in the near future. Idea's such as:
life in the universe is so so rare, the best we can tell. The only life we know to exist is here, of course, so I think it would be very unlikely our trash would have a tremendous negative effect on life elsewhere.
Yeah, the best we can tell now. You are forgetting one important fact: Humans are stupid and arrogant. We consistently believe that we finally have the right answer. That we've figured things out. Humans are the most ignorant form of life I could possibly think of. We somehow just can't comprehend the fact that shit takes up space, and space is finite. So we just decide to shit everywhere.
I have a better idea, instead of saying; Well space is really really REALLY huge so it won't matter if our disgusting garbage just floats around the last beautiful untouched frontier, how about we die. We all just fucking die, or at least most of us.
Humans are the real trash.
