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coldblade200090 karma

Space Is one of the most expensive disposal options you could think of. The maximum weight you could possibly take to space on a single rocket is around 20t (more than that and the rockets become absurdly expensive), and those cost 50+ million dollars each. Not to mention that a launch failure would spread radioactive mist throughout the ocean, and likely through large parts of the planer's land. Easily one of the worst environmental disasters in history if it happened. That's just to keep it in low earth orbit for a day or so. For longer, you'll need constant boosting to avoid it coming back to earth due to atmospheric drag. If you want to put it way farther away (let's say lunar height), that will significantly cut down the mass you could move upwards into space at a time.

It's just not feasible and way more dangerous than storing it pretty much anywhere else in the planet. You could ask Al Qaeda to keep an eye on it, pinky promise, and they still wouldn't be able to do as much damage with it as a rocket failure would

coldblade200012 karma

Modernas main job is exactly cancer treatments, the covid vaccine is just a side step for them really

coldblade20002 karma

Holy shit. That would be horrible