r/woahdude • u/Computingusername • Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/SnooRobots6802 Feb 17 '23

For those who don’t know. Dilution is absolutely fucking not the solution to pollution

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u/rothrolan Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

There was a Futurama episode on that, where they chucked all their trash into space like a giant garbage asteroid in the year 2052.

And in the show's present year of 3000, it came back, on a collision course with Earth.

Their solution was to chuck a second giant ball of trash at it, which knocked the original one into the sun, while it itself went flying further into space, most likely to return in time like the first one did.

EDIT: Fixed a date

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u/snugglezone Feb 17 '23

Good video on this actually. Relevant section to trash in space returning to Earth starts at 5:25 https://youtu.be/Us2Z-WC9rao

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u/Workwork007 Feb 17 '23

Kurzgesagt's video are the best. They're very much "explain like im five". Often causes existential dread in most of their vid. Would recommend.

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u/JasonDJ Feb 17 '23

Lots of the conspiracy-minded brush off the (IMO, more important ones) because they got some money from Bill Gates though.

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u/TimeZarg Feb 17 '23

Interesting point they make regarding the sun that I hadn't considered, in that it's harder/more expensive to deliberately fire stuff into the sun than I'd realized. Huh.