Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 16, 2023

Eventually, mining quarries will outnumber craters.

On the Moon, craters have already won.

Too bad they can’t go back to Earth. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos put up so many satellites, there’s no space left to get through.

Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once: EARTH FIRST (We can destroy the other planets later)

Just throw it at the Sun!

Don’t even get me started on all the space junk we’ve already left orbiting around…gah, most recently a tool box but supposedly that will burn up some time soon

His helmet swivels

I’d choose Venus – built-in burning.

A funny cartoon, but also a cautionary tale!!!

There’s quite a bit of junk on the moon already.

I hang out at the dump and explore whenever I can.

Wait until they reach Uranus.

Someone was going to mention it.

Whenever I hear those futurists talking about changing other planets to make them more habitable for Earth life, I wonder why they don’t first practice on Earth. Why change another planet’s climate when you haven’t figured out how to change yours back yet?

A good point that makes zero sense literally.

The Lunar Flea Market: When the moon is a harsh mare-mess.

Where’s WALL-E ?

Maybe we’ll create a mini-black hole to dispose of all our junk. But since our species doesn’t think about the consequences of its actions, it’ll probably malfunction and absorb the entire planet, and that will be the end of us.

Reminds me of the cartoons by Cobb.

Ever look out the widow when flying across the country. The forests, plains, and mountains that are virtually untouched dwarf the cities. In my lifetime (70 years) we have reduced pollution to an amazing extent. Yes, we need to and will do better, but there is so much unspoiled land to enjoy if you get away from the cities.

I think before we start dumping stuff on the moon, we’ll figure out profitable ways to mine our big deposits of trash and junk. I think some landfills have already tapped into the methane being produced. I see lots of stuff that could be recycled (or even repaired, maybe easily) sitting out on the curb with the trash. Some people go around picking up salvage, but I think there’s potential for a lot more of that sort of thing if it were properly organized.

Maybe we should set up a “Sea of Tranquility” preserve, and rope off the Apollo 11 landing site for tourists.

Is one of those junkers the one that was launched?

Google: Mount Trashmore

This is NOT funny. . .

if there was something sooo valuable on the moon, we would have made many more trips to it than 2

This will definitely happen.

NASA at work.

Massive amounts of space junk floating around in space…..Great plastic garbage dump floating around in the Pacific…..all courtesy of HUMANKIND‼️

Wall-E?

The Moon has a lot of aluminum ore. We should pile up trash on one side while we mine the ore from the other side. We need to keep the mass of the moon the same so it maintains a stable orbit.

We need technologies that will disassemble trash into constituent atoms without causing pollution. Recycling efforts are insufficient for the amount of trash we produce

If it weren’t so expensive, we’d be doing that already.

there is helium-3 on the moon needed for nuclear fusion both reactors and bombs

Humans…sigh.

Most of it belongs to DIET SMITH

Still waiting for the invention of the real (non-Calvin-based) matter transmogrifier, so all our Earthside landfills suddenly become useful.

naah, global warming will be the end of us. signed, old fort

Sadly funny.

The Moon is one of those places where we are more likely to take stuff away (mining) than leave things behind.

Humans are evil by nature

For those of us of a certain age – this was the premise of Space 1999.

This is a swell opportunity to tout A City on Mars, the most recent book from Zach Weinersmith (creator of “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal”, which fortunately comes out far more frequently than just Saturday mornings) and his wife, college professor Kelly Weinersmith. It take a realistic view of space settlement and the very real problems it will encounter. Available at fine bookstores everywhere. Or you could order it directly from the cartoonist’s website: acityonmars.Com

Just wondering about the garbage. There used to be a waste disposal plant in Southern California I’m sure that burned everything and had scrubbers for the exhaust that caught everything. Late 70’s early 80’s I think. Still there ? I seem to remember another one in the South ? It worked then, why wouldn’t it work better now with newer technology ? Pretty sure I haven’t gone completely mental about this ?

What would the country look like without landfills? The few that are around my area near Seattle don’t take up much space at all.

When is someone gonna finally invent that back to the future car that runs on waste? It could be a game changer, not to mention make someone a lot of money.

I forget. Why is consumerism good again?

Some people dine and dash. The human race does more of a trash and dash.

Whoa .. that’s some rubbish tip!

And destroy it as well…

Add too much mass to the moon, and you’ll wreak havoc with the tides here on earth. Or worse, bring the moon crashing into the earth.

Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life down here.

Looks a lot like earth.

Lookin’ at the beer cans on the moon

There is an old Filk song where the entire solar system ends up inside a Dyson Sphere composed almost exclusively of discarded candy wrappers.