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

[Reeve]

$1000.00 won't be worth much by that time.

The average American throws out 2.6 pounds of garbage per day. With 315 million of us, that's about 819 million pounds of trash per day. At 2.2 pounds per kilogram, that's 370,909,091 kilograms per day. Even if $1,000 doesn't buy that much by that time, I imagine $371 billion per day will still be worth something. And that's just in the US.

[Afrospinach]

(sarcasm)

I am disappoint!

[Glnger]

I am disappoint!

lol, sorry. no trump 2016 bumper sticker on my truck ;p

[Gadion]

Simply put, space is huge (massive understatement, I know), so there is lots of storage space outside of our atmosphere. So, you could potentially send junk into space to minimise the pollution on Earth. Don't worry too much about the loss of resources with sending all this material away, since in the future with improved technology humans might be capable of harvesting this space junk and salvaging anything of value from the debris, as long as the material is in a predictable orbit that is close enough to keep an eye on. Anything that we could temporarily not want on Earth could potentially be stored in space for when we are better equipped to deal with it, even corpses if some people speculate that in the future we might be capable of resuscitating cryogenically frozen specimens.

Obviously, this is just speculation

[Xargoth6634]

Why would I pay to send anything into space unless there was also a cheap way for me to join it? Just chuck shit into space so it can float around there? That's retarded.

[Charge me Doctor]

There is enough crap flying around the orbit already, no need to make it even worse. Better send yourself to the orbit and clean it up a bit

[Hooked]

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?

In 50 years $2200 bucks will be chump change.