Throwing trash on the moon

[Sean]

Please do not quote the morons.

Thanks.

Sorry. I iggied it any way.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

While the link in the opening post is specifically about the moon, I'm pretty sure the thread starter was lamenting about trash in space in general. Regardless of whether the moon supports life or not, I saw the point being that at the rate we're going we'll be trashing the entire universe in no time. We've already started. So to that end, it's a truth. I don't consider myself stupid for being concerned about it...

You and Mr. Foolery are making two separate assertions that contradict one another. On the one hand we live in a universe with billions upon billions of stars and planets (true). On the other hand, "at the rate we're going we'll be trashing the entire universe in no time." (false. Not just false, patently false. At the risk of being unkind, idiotically false.) Either our universe is so large that our presence and impact within it is infinitesimally small or it isn't. But you can't have it both ways. We can't be infinitesimally insignificant AND be on pace to pollute the moon (much less the entire universe) "in no time."

The comparative insignificance of man's waste was once a truism here on earth. It has grown far less true as our population has expanded. But that expansion has literally taken place over the entire history of mankind. How much longer do you think it would take to even approach that kind of impact on the moon, much less the entire universe? To believe it is even possible based on our current rate of visiting or sending objects to the moon is to display the type of arrogance you criticize mankind for having.

Tom Foolery made a major error in his use of solar system vs universe. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming it was just a mistake and that he knows the difference...

And had he merely acknowledged that mistake rather than trying to bluff and dance his way around it and ridiculing those who pointed it out, there would have been very little criticism of it. It wasn't his mistake. It was his attitude in regards to it.

I'm one also that believes there are probably millions of planets in different galaxies, and many of those are likely to be similar to earth. Don't you think it's even a possibility?

Of course it's a possibility. But the planet has to be in a fairly narrow "life zone" from its host sun in order to support life. Just because a planet is in that zone does not mean life will have taken root (yet) much less evolved from a microbiological form to higher animals or humans. And even if life has evolved on such a planet, there's no guarantee that it hasn't already become extinct.

 

[great lover]

There's nothing wrong with trashing outer space. In the context of the Universe, we are nothing and less than nothing.

 

[Tom_Foolery]

There's nothing wrong with trashing outer space. In the context of the Universe, we are nothing and less than nothing.

Kind of like you are here

 

[Colonel Hogan]

There's nothing wrong with trashing outer space. In the context of the Universe, we are nothing and less than nothing.

You piss in my water glass, I ain't drinking it. If you and the rest of Woodstock nation care to take a leak 600 miles upstream of where I'm fishing, knock yourself out.

It would seem some here would be surprised to learn that commercial aircraft routinely fly over some of the most toxic hazardous waste sites known to man without any passengers getting sick.

One would think that reasonable concerns about ecological impacts would be based on accurate information about what actually causes them.