I just want to add the fact that those garbage disposal areas in Gallante space also includes trash from the stations as well but still good point…
A few points to add to Loai’s very valid issue of depleting planetary mass…
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Trash in space doesn’t stink. Scent is a transfer of molecules to the mucus membranes of your nostrils, where they register with olfactory receptors. Anything not in an atmosphere or other continuous medium doesn’t ‘smell’, just like it doesn’t make a ‘sound’.
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Very little of it will reach the star, anyway. Unless you give it a considerable amount of thrust toward the star, it’s going to get buffeted by the stellar wind, and—in effect—sandblasted to bits. Those bits then get dispersed through the stellar wind, meaning all you’ve done is accelerated the inevitable breakdown of all matter as the heat death of the universe inevitably approaches.
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Anything that does make it to the star, well, high-mass stars have more gravity, and so wind up burning faster than lower-mass stars. As a result…
You’ve not only contributed to the instability of planetary mass and blasted little tiny bits of trash all over the star system, you’re killing the star just a tiny little bit faster with each ton of crap that makes it down into the burning ball of gas.
Leave your trash where it belongs: on the filthy dirtballs.
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Speaking about thrust, each moment you push the trash towards the star, you only deform its orbit around the star. To make it land you need to keep pushing and pushing, applying thrust until the orbit deforms so hard, that it touches the star’s surface.
Though, if you really want to do it - haul all the garbage to Federation and launch it to their stars. Just don’t do that in Luminaire or warzone - these will be ours.
Well, provided you drop the trash too far in for it to orbit synchronously, it’ll all fall into the sun eventually.
Yea its kinda all about your dropping zone and speed same thing can be done at close range and even putting garbage in close orbit is enough. The other comments are kinda true but somehow they kinda tend to forget about the immense tempratures close to the starts. The heat will do the job and garbage (which is in atomic state) will get sucked in the star.
Also because of their size its almost impossible to pollute any stars after all fusion reactions will do the cleaning for us.
Again, there’s a huge difference of temperatures in the star core and surface. Many stars won’t even melt hulls of our ships with their surface temperature.
And fusion reactions happen only deep in the cores of the stars. In their bulk stars are jets of hot gas. Look at the picuture of the star you posted - it is covered in multitude of “cells”, just like any other active star. They are “fountains” of the gas - if you land on one of these, you’ll be just pushed upwards by the stream. If you land between them - you’ll be sucked inside and crushed by the currents and growing pressure, and then current will again start pushing you upwards back to the surface. Maybe in millions or billions of years the matter from these currents will finally get into the core: but, as you see, you can pollute even stars themselves.
Of course, the energy you will need to push that garbage to the star to destabilize it orbit to degree for it to land on its surface is times greater than what you’d need to just overheat yourself this matter to 10 000 K
Diana are you aware of the fact that we are talking about garbage and what I mean by that is not hulls or station parts etc the stuff you see in your trashcan just standart human garbage so do you really think that any kind of standart trash can hold aganist the temperature of a star ?
I belive I told you this like couple posts ago not hulls not station parts not something with high temp resistance regular trash like plastic,food maybe some documents or used electonic devices etc etc…
It doesn’t really matter. It will be half-decomposed by temperature, partly hydrogenated. If you wish, you could predict what exact will happen with each chemical compound in stellar jets. Full atomization is highly unlikely and will happen only in deep stellar layers. Ionization - quite possible. Partial thermal decomposition is expected. Burning?.. Well, it will be sort of “reverse” burning with reduction instead of oxidation, since majority of stellar atmospheres consist of hydrogen, not oxygen - of course, if you put them inside solar atmosphere.
Outside it will be only thermal decomposition.
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I believe it was tried at one time, but the tracking was faulty. Instead of launching stuff into the sun it was actually hitting a planet. Unbeknownst to anyone there was a small refugee colony there, that dutifully stacked up the rubbish and worshipped it.
Such an off-beat, absurd story couldn’t possibly be false.
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