Why not launch an immense amount of nuclear heads in a far planet like Venus or Mercury, just for fun?

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The risk of a failed launch and having a nuclear warhead falling on an unintended target isn’t negligible, and sending a heavy payload outside of the Earth gravitational pull is quite expensive.

  Same reason why we don’t send our nuclear waste into space or the sun.

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• CaptainMcMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We thought about it, but then we signed a treaty or two that cancelled the project.

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  • CaptainMcMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personal opinion though: It would be an absurdly expensive way to taint future study of any place we nuke, especially if we want any hope to find any type of life on another planet.

    I really hope we find something on Europa or Titan. Both have water and heat, so maybe they’ve got something next to a seafloor vent or something.

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• Mamertine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2 flaws I see.

  All countries have a gentleman agreement not to launch nuclear material into space. If the launch failed, it’d be catrostrophic for people here in earth.

  It’s really expensive to launch stuff into space, getting stuff out of the earths orbit is another level of power beyond getting it above the atmosphere.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They use radioactive materials on long range stuff

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cost.

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• ogginger43@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d really hope my tax money doesn’t go to something like this. But I’m sure it’s paid for dumber things.

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because we wouldn’t be able to see it from that far away. I say we do what you said but for the far away land of Britain and that way we can all enjoy it here on earth ☺️

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• the_beber@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you by any chance a writer at Kurzgesagt?

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