Jupiter the largest planet in our solar system a gas giant capable of sucking up and condensing millions of tons of space debris so why don't we use it to solve one of the Earth's stinkiest problems our trash what if we decided to send the world's garbage up into space and launch it into Jupiter how would we manage to send this much crash into space and would this help our problem or make everything worse this is what if and here's what would happen if we dumped all our trash into Jupiter okay before we begin shooting Jupiter
bound Rockets full of moldy food electronic waste and plastic packaging out into the stratosphere let's take a look at the journey these things currently take from creation to collection waste management is a complex process around the world there are tons of different strategies from Curbside bin pickups to highly Advanced recycling sorting programs after Disposal trash makes its way to landfills or incinerators depending on the infrastructure of your region of course not all of it makes it there though you know wherever humans are on the planet you can count on there being some amount of human
litter there too and where humans are aren't like the Pacific Ocean well our litter is there too just check out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch if you need proof so it should come as no surprise that as landfills overflow and sea levels continue to rise humanity is desperate for a solution and that solution could be over 778 million kilm away you know we have a lot of trash on Earth but the number of pieces of trash doesn't even come close to how many ants we have there are approximately 20 quadrillion ants on the planet and
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season called Race of Champions vast jungle that starts sign up on April 8th so make sure to sign up fast designing a program that would deliver the garbage from your driveway all the way to the Jovian atmosphere would require enormous technological advancements and some pretty radical International cooperation to say the least we need to completely reimagine how we handle everything and lucky for you this is what if so we're going to do just that okay starting with the collection maybe you'd still be able to throw everything into one or two different bins as per usual
but after that local Regional and National governments would need to employ a highly sophisticated system of automated drones in order to process the waste in a way that would get it ready for space travel our trash would need to be compacted to maximize the payload of each and every rocket that will send it on its way we'd need compactor sites that could handle more garbage than we've ever imagined and then we'd need to smush it all together into the densest object possible and we'd need enough sights to process the approximately 2.1 billion metric tons of
global waste that's produced every year that figure isn't expected to go down anytime soon and with the space trash program you could count on it increasing maybe more important than that would be the necessity to completely decontaminate this waste of all terrestrial microbes that might want to Hitch a free ride to Jupiter yeah you might be thinking well why de contaminate the waste if we're just going to destroy it well the last thing we'd want to do is wipe out any alien life that might be out there with our big ball of garbage there's the
possibility that our bacterial life forms could get lost somewhere on the way and then who knows what could happen we wouldn't want some Earth disease landing on Mars it could kill any life forms that might be on the planet or make them evolve in strange ways so instead of messing around around with aliens let's just keep them safe and decontaminate now transporting this colossal mass of trash across the solar system to Jupiter would require spacecraft of neverbe seen sizes and capabilities besides having to survive long haul Journeys to Jupiter and back over and over again
they'd be carrying an enormous amount of weight to get them safely off the planet and out into orbit well they'd need Advanced propulsion systems that only exist in our wildest sci-fi imaginations think something like nuclear fusion or ion thrusters now if we could pull it off this would be a gigantic Leap Forward in our space exploration technology but let's not get ahead of ourselves we still need to see what happens when we get to Jupiter okay upon arrival at the biggest planet in our Cosmic neighborhood the spaceships would unleash their garbage cargo into the atmosphere
of the gas giant from there the extremely powerful gravitational force of the planet would do the work to make sure our trash Falls further and further into the swirling vibrantly colored gases Below in the upper layer of the atmosphere our waste would be falling through freezing temperatures of about -45° C in pressure about equal to what we experience at sea level on Earth but it's only going to get more intense from here in these clouds of ammonia gas the protective casing of the cargo bins would start to erode and as the atmospheric pressure increases to
millions of times more than Earth's sea level the bins would collapse scattering clouds of trash that would quickly disintegrate as their molecular bonds get torn apart if a bin were to make it down to the deepest layers of Jupiter well it would never land on the surface of course there is no surface on this gigantic gaseous Planet but if anything made it close to the core it would get broken down into its most Elemental form in The Inferno of temperatures up to 24,000 de C Metals would melt and mingle Plastics would be reduced to their
smallest molecules from high up above you'd celebrate this disintegration finally our trash could be completely recycled in the heart of jup but now you'd have to turn around and start all over again a risky Journey especially when having to navigate the asteroid belt imagine what kind of cosmic disaster awaits the day a trash ship explodes and sends garbage hurling throughout the solar system for all eternity now this raises another issue if we knew that we could truly get rid of our trash by shipping it across space would we do any anything to limit our consumption
back at home or would it mean we'd produce even more trash than humanly imaginable yeah I think before we consider a project as wild and as consuming as this one we should take a look at how we treat our own Planet not to mention the amount of waste that developing such an enormous and powerful spacecraft would create yeah and the amount of fuel needed for it to lift off at the end of the day we'd be better off working with governments and corporations to reduce our consumption enhance our recycling systems and design a more sustainable
future of course maybe there's another place to dump all our trash that's a little closer to home like volcanoes well that's a story or another what if hey thanks for watching but don't go away just yet don't forget to download the ants underground Kingdom and use the code ants 2024 to receive a special gift pack
