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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | In Speculative Fiction, you will sometimes find that entire planets get used as interstellar landfills. Implicitly this means that it is somehow worthwhile to launch refuse into space and take it to another planet, possibly one that is located in another solar system, in order to dump it there, rather than give it a push towards the nearest star, or just recycle the stuff (not to mention massive and cheap energy sources that make such launches worthwhile in the first place—just getting into space in the first place is a lot harder than most people think). This is usually a consequence of the fact that Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, treating interstellar space and the different planets like a sea with islands in it rather than as an infinite void with tiny rocks and not-so-tiny furnaces separated from each other by immense distances, an environment where any man-made object would be so tiny as to be insignificant for most purposes. |