An article was recently published on Popular Science about a space cannon that could be used to launch supplies into outer space.

The space cannon is important because it has the potential to be able to reduce current space launch costs of about $5,000 per pound down to just $250 per pound.

While there's no mention of the device being used to launch nuclear waste as a projectile into the sun in the original article, the article also appears on Slashdot and Gizmodo where discussions about launching nuclear waste into the sun is well underway.

I'd hope, for all of mankind, that no scientist would be vain enough to claim that research says we can launch nuclear waste into the sun without repercussion.

The last time I looked - we were still working on saving the earth and had a long way to go to find the balance between our existence and the destruction of the habitability of the earth.

We're in no position to be guessing about what effects shooting nuclear waste into the sun would have on the sun, the earth or even the solar system. Let's just leave that life-permitting ball of fire in the sky alone until we can find another inhabitable planet in the solar system and we're well underway at inhabiting it.