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To: Widget Jr

I don’t know, but I’ll imagine that there are dual redundancies where possible and feasible.

I don’t envision too many moving parts. Nozzles, Jet blasts, perhaps solenoid or two. 18 years ago is 1999. Pretty viable technology.

Things wear and tear and the vacuum is harsh.

Killer satellites were talked about during Reagan’s SDI push. Haven’t heard much about them in years.

I don’t claim or believe that this was hit by a killer satellite, but it does remind me that the next war is probably going to start with or include destroying satellites.


3 posted on 09/09/2017 11:13:44 PM PDT by Fhios (Down with your fascism, up with our fascism.)
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To: Fhios

Geosynchronous orbit is going to need some garbage collector bots.


4 posted on 09/10/2017 3:42:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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