Joe Average never realizes just how massive space is.
A quick, simple, and easy test to find out if someone fundamentally knows how infinite space is and how infinitesimal they are to it.
Suggest we shoot our garbage in to the sun. If they balk at the idea, they don’t have a clue.
We have a perception of the asteroid belt as this place where there are massive ricks tumbling though space as far as the eye can see. The reality is that the average distance between asteroids is more than a million miles and it would be a fairly rare event to see another asteroid if you were on the surface of one.
Is space massive? I always thought it had no mass.
Also, to get garbage to fall into the sun, you’d have to accelerate it relative to the Earth by an amount equal to the Earth’s orbital velocity around the sun. This would not be inexpensive.