[karajorma]

Well, instead of the sun we could always just send it to some remote location on the moon where we have no plans of building a base or anything (pfft, like we have plans to do that anyway  ).

The issue is not where we send it in space, it's how we get it into space safely in the first place.

[castor]

Short history of human spacefaring activities:
1957, Sputnik 1 - first satellite to orbit Earth
1961, Yuri Gagarin - first human in space
1969, Neil Armstrong - first man on the moon
2011, NYC Dept. of Sanitation - first established transport route between Earth and Moon

[StarSlayer]

I heard it mentioned that there has been quite a bit of research put into even just figuring out what kind of labeling to put on such containment facilities.   Since what lies within will be dangerous for so long they can't quite say for sure how language will have evolved or changed over the course of the material's decay.  Funny to think the stuff will still be dangerous even in such a time in the far future when today's languages have become lost in the sands of time.

[Inquisitor]

Consider how many space craft have fallen out of the sky, how we run like scared little girls when a 5 inch chunk of debris comes within 3 miles of the ISS, or how we can't keep trains on tracks, airplanes in skies, or trucks safely on the road with any certaintly, then load any of of those things up with effectively a HUGE dirty bomb.

Then ask why we don't blast it into space on space garbage scows

[BloodEagle]

Consider how many space craft have fallen out of the sky, [...].

Space elevator?

 

[Nuke]

we could just throw it into a volcano, im sure it will sink in the lava, its pretty heavy stuff.

[ssmit132]

I heard it mentioned that there has been quite a bit of research put into even just figuring out what kind of labeling to put on such containment facilities.   Since what lies within will be dangerous for so long they can't quite say for sure how language will have evolved or changed over the course of the material's decay.  Funny to think the stuff will still be dangerous even in such a time in the far future when today's languages have become lost in the sands of time.

Maybe put something like 92 (or whatever the atomic number of the stuff) strikes/tally marks on a sign or something. I'm sure even if language changes significantly they'll still understand that, and the atomic number of uranium/plutonium whatever shouldn't change.

[Hellstryker]

we could just throw it into a volcano, im sure it will sink in the lava, its pretty heavy stuff.

Yeah, what happens when it erupts? 

[Blue Lion]

Put it in Yellowstone, that way if it erupts, we'll be dead anyways.

[Hellstryker]

Put it in Yellowstone, that way if it erupts, we'll be dead anyways.

They always blow yellowstone waaaaay out of proportion. It wouldn't be nearly as bad as they say.

[Inquisitor]

Seems as though there might be evidence to suggest it would be as bad as "they say" if it were to happen

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/about/history/index.php

[BloodEagle]

* BloodEagle finds the growth of this thread to be... curious. 

[lostllama]

* BloodEagle finds the growth of this thread to be... curious. 

Oh noes..... Look out!! It's reaching CRITICAL MASS!!!!!

[S-99]

Just watch the movie.

[Hellstryker]

Seems as though there might be evidence to suggest it would be as bad as "they say" if it were to happen

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/about/history/index.php

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,60123.msg1185277.html#msg1185277

[karajorma]

Well it depends on how bad "they" say it's going to be. Most people would consider covering a 1000 mile radius of Yellowstone in ash pretty bad.

Probably wouldn't make things much worse if that ash was radioactive.

[Inquisitor]

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,60123.msg1185277.html#msg1185277

Not sure what 2 pages of you guys quoting slashdot and talking about sheep has to do with the evidence described on the USGS site, but ok...