• BlindPenguin@piefed.social
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    8 days ago

    You still need to make sure he goes away from earth, not accidentally tumbling towards it in a few thousand years.

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      8 days ago

      Do the ISS astronauts dump their waste in a decaying orbit? If so, he would just be another dehydrated turd burning up in the atmosphere on reentry.

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          7 days ago

          I know these scales are difficult to imagine, but his Rocket burning up in Orbit isn’t even a blip on the radar compared to what he does now, and will do for the foreseeable future.

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      8 days ago

      I’m not mad at the many bacteria that make up the majority of his body. They can come back in a couple thousand years, after they thoroughly wash the musk off.