Posted on 01/28/2020 10:20:22 AM PST by Red Badger
Not good.
Would make a goo light show.......................
That's gonna leave a dent all right.
It’ll buff right out...................
Even as close as 15 meters the odds of them actually colliding are astronomically against. 15 meters is bigger than either satellite and we are talking about 3 dimensions rather than 2.
Space Junk. Wikipedia...
As of October 2019, the US Space Surveillance Network reported nearly 20,000 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth,[7] including 2,218 operational satellites.[8] However, these are just the objects large enough to be tracked. As of January 2019, more than 128 million pieces of debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), about 900,000 pieces of debris 1–10 cm, and around 34,000 of pieces larger than 10 cm were estimated to be in orbit around the Earth.[9]
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Maybe DJT’s Space Force can tackle these problems.
Hey you got chocolate on my peanut butter
Seems to me that all the space faring nations could pool their resources and build a robot spacecraft that could sweep up all that trash and send it hurling into the atmosphere and burn up.......................
Veeger is about to be born.
Chain reaction?
Even as close as 15 meters the odds of them actually colliding are astronomically against. 15 meters is bigger than either satellite and we are talking about 3 dimensions rather than 2.
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That was my first thought.
I definitely wouldn’t put good money on a bet for a collision, although if you gave me good enough odds (30:1 or better) I might drop a few bucks on it.
Wasn’t there a TV show about a trash hauling spaceship?
Nomad?
Vger?
Or some fireworks over Pittsburgh?
5.56mm
There have been so many.....................
It’s been tried.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/spacejunk/index
More than a few articles about ways in which to clean up the Space Junk.
Salvage 1.
I’m thinking of a comedy not a drama!. On early to mid-1970s.
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