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    Fifty years from now SpaceX cargo is cheap, what do you send into orbit or space?

    So it's 2066, It costs about $1000 a pound or $2200 a kilo to send something into space and put it into orbit or send out of the solar system. What do you send if anything?
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    With the amount of space junk floating around the planet now I highly doubt people get on board with tossing more stuff up there as storage.
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    The kids. Whole new meaning to space camp.

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    I'll send Donald Trump.

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    All the bodies there won't be room to bury?

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    liberals because they wanted my money anyway...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forgettable View Post
    I'll send Donald Trump.
    He'll be dead by then, thankfully lol

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    Gnomophobia comics.
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    A drive thru, a florida man and an aligator.
    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by druenos View Post
    He'll be dead by then, thankfully lol
    I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or thankful because of this notion.

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    Gnomophobia comics.
    WTF have aliens ever done to you?

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    WTF have aliens ever done to you?
    Come back to us!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyrven View Post
    With the amount of space junk floating around the planet now I highly doubt people get on board with tossing more stuff up there as storage.
    Eh, there's an awful lot of space in space, and bear in mind that space is 3 dimensional. You can put something in an orbit a few feet higher or lower than the other stuff. There's certainly a lot more space for space junk in space than there is Earth for Earth junk down here.
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    Should devise a method for jettisoning sea cans full of garbage into the sun. Garbage problem solved!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tradewind View Post
    Should devise a method for jettisoning sea cans full of garbage into the sun. Garbage problem solved!
    At $1k/kg, doubtful.


    Besides, we might be able to use that garbage someday. No reason to send it to the sun, where we certainly won't ever get to use it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tradewind View Post
    Should devise a method for jettisoning sea cans full of garbage into the sun. Garbage problem solved!
    With our luck we'd screw up the sun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reeve View Post
    At $1k/kg, doubtful.


    Besides, we might be able to use that garbage someday. No reason to send it to the sun, where we certainly won't ever get to use it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tradewind View Post
    Reeve <Killer of Fun>
    Well, at the price involved, you could probably reasonably send a cassette tape with Smashmouth's "Walkin' on the Sun" into the sun.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reeve View Post
    Well, at the price involved, you could probably reasonably send a cassette tape with Smashmouth's "Walkin' on the Sun" into the sun.
    I like the cut of your jib.
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    I would like to send out one of those satellites that are supposed to hit other civilizations and somehow try and communicate who we are and where we are, except I'd make it really obscure, wrong and explain physics that are impossible. Essentially try and spark the same UFO craze we have here on earth, just more obscure and crazy

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