It would require accelerating to about 30 kilometers per second (66,000 mph) to actually hit the Sun and not orbit. That is almost twice as fast as any space vehicle or probe that we have ever sent into space. The energy requirement would be huge, even for a negligible amount of mass.
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The Oracle of Omigod say: The amount of energy required to escape our gravity is huge. The energy used in one rocket could power a large city for weeks.
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Raymond say: Earth is orbiting the Sun at 30 km/s
From Earth, the "Solar escape speed" (the speed to escape the Solar system) is around 42 km/s.
This means that for sending a probe outside the Solar system requires a "delta-V" of only 12 km/s (this is what we did for the Voyagers and for New Horizon).
However, to drop a rocket towards the Sun we would need a "delta-V" of 30 km/s, more than twice what we have been able to achieve, so far.
Saturn 5 (or Saturn V, if you remember your Roman numerals)?
It only reached a "delta V" of 11 km/s to go to the Moon. And that was our best "heavy lifter" if you want to sent out tonnes of stuff.
The space shuttle could only reach 8 km/s, and it could be modified to reach 9 or a tiny bit more. However, it could take heavy loads.
Therefore, the answer to your question is no.
We are not yet at the level where we could do that.
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Johnny say: If by "non-degradable garbage" you mean liberal Democrats, the answer is yes. It would be costly, but the value of the restoration of our God-given Freedoms would be worth the expense...
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John P say: We could, if that was the only project to which the entire resources of the Earth should be devoted.
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Flouride say: you could. but why would you, when you could just as effectively dump it in a landfill and bulldoze over it at a tiny fraction of the cost?
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Nyx say: One launch failure wipes out a thousand good intentions.
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