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Beyond Gravity: the complex quest to take out our orbital trash

43 pointsby zernyalmost 11 years ago

6 comments

Ygg2almost 11 years ago
Have they considered some kind of super heavy gravitational mop. Something big enough to attract enough small particles and just 'mop' them up and send them into the sun or towards Earth?
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piratekingalmost 11 years ago
Planetes: a hard science manga with space debris as a core story element.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Planetes</a>
guard-of-terraalmost 11 years ago
Why can&#x27;t we launch something like blobs of clay. Let objects stuck in it, and then it would deorbit on its own.
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EGregalmost 11 years ago
Why can&#x27;t we gradually push the largest objects away from earth into a graveyard orbit and make them spiral out and away from earth over time?
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marincountyalmost 11 years ago
Let&#x27;s clean up our oceans first? That plastic island out there has irritated me for years. Oh yea--and maybe stop eating so much fish? That includes Sushi. I had a girlfriend who called herself a strict vegetarian, but fish don&#x27;t matter. Yea, we had numerous arguments about the power of denial.
qwertaalmost 11 years ago
This article is junk. It describes in very alarming way space junk, but it never even mentions atmosphere drag at LEO and natural orbital decay. ISS has to periodically increase its orbit and it already brought down Skylab and to some extend Mir.<p>&gt; and amped the volume up to 11 for dramatic purposes. The filmmakers kept only as much science as they felt like keeping<p>&gt; We’ve already reached the point where the growth of debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) has become self-sustaining.
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