alt Hacker NewsIt would also be far cheaper to send that nuclear waste to Mars. It takes 55 times the energy to fly to the Sun than it does to go to Mars:
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/its-surprisingly-hard-to-g...
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georgemcbay • today at 4:04 AM
Sure but since we're talking about pie in the sky stuff requiring tech we don't yet have to begin with, putting it into the sun is a better permanent solution.
I don't think Elon is ever going to colonize Mars, but other people may someday.
hollerith • today at 4:02 AM
In addition, even sending it to Mars would be extremely expensive.
Shower thought: Why send it to Mars when we can send it to uninhabitable Venus? Even gravity might work in our favor.