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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
So we just started a war with the Saturn people? Dropping radioactive waste on their planet.
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I saw somewhere that, legit, it was intentionally crashed into Saturn because just to let it die/drift in orbit might let it crash into one of the moons and contaminate them - messing up whatever lives there or just future research. They figured nobody will ever stumble upon our rad waste on the surface(?) of Saturn. Hey, it was the '90s. Jean shorts seemed sensible then too...
I'd love to track that line of reasoning further than whatever threads of mainstream coverage brought it to me today. With a ~90y half life there won't be much left when we're wandering around on some Saturn-moon, at least by my estimation.