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[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 9/22/2007, you wrote:
> Someone once proposed putting nuclear waste in a
> rocket and sending it to the sun.  Might work? until a
> rocket blew up on takeoff.

And how much fossil energy would that take?  It could be done by setting it 
on a course to the sun but the cost and amount of energy required to get it 
going fast enough to get out of this very deep gravity well is 
prohibitive.  Then as you mention what about the occasional 
malfunction?  The shuttle is as safe as we can make it and look at its 
problems.




Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com