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Experts Urge Removal of Space Debris From Orbit
universetoday.com ^
| April 28, 2013
| Elizabeth Howell on
Posted on 04/28/2013 5:49:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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04/28/2013 5:49:27 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/28/2013 5:53:54 PM PDT
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struggle
To: BenLurkin
The Kessler Syndrome
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posted on
04/28/2013 5:55:34 PM PDT
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struggle
To: struggle
Looks like he screwed up.
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posted on
04/28/2013 5:59:53 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/28/2013 6:00:37 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Normal isn't normal anymore.)
To: struggle
I’ll get up there right away with my Billygoat vacuum. Sorry, I’ve been real busy.
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posted on
04/28/2013 6:01:52 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: BenLurkin
A new game - Dodge Debris.
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04/28/2013 6:05:41 PM PDT
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RetiredTexasVet
(The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
To: BenLurkin
Add to detecting and solving the threat of asteroid impact, a new activity for starry-eyed startups.
To: BenLurkin
My solution would be to build a tower about 100,000 feet into the stratosphere, which can be dome with today's technology. On top of the tower put a cannon which can launch dry ice pellets straight up about 300 miles. The dry ice will sublimate into carbon dioxide gas, which is heavy enough to get pulled back down to earth, and as a gas will spread out into a cloud. When space debris hits the carbon dioxide, it will loose momentum and gradually drop out of orbit, but will not be destroyed by the gas. Even working satellites will get hit, but should not be too damaged, and still have a working life while it is being pulled down.
The result of this will be that all the space debris, including working satellites, will fall into the atmosphere and burn up. During this time we can be launching new satellites to replace the old.
To: BenLurkin; All
It could be a money maker for someone who could pull everything together as a space salvage expert.
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posted on
04/28/2013 6:26:19 PM PDT
by
TMSuchman
(John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
To: BenLurkin
I the idea of “the big ball of goo”. The idea is to launch a fairly large satellite, that when in orbit extends long, hollow, telescoping rods, attached to the ends of which are a very large, spherical tent. The tent is then filled with high expansion, polymer foam.
Gas is then exhausted through the rods to help the ball navigate into the path of the smaller space junk. And even at their high average speed of 15,500mph, hopefully they would be caught by the polymer instead of punching through it. Then when enough was captured, the whole ball would reenter the atmosphere, burning up.
To: BenLurkin
An expert is a swede shoe salesman hawking his BS more than 50 miles from home!
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04/28/2013 6:31:27 PM PDT
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dalereed
To: Vince Ferrer
My solution is to take a bunch of democrat politicians (heck, throw in the RINO's too) and launch them into orbit wearing a space suit and holding a tennis racket.
I'm not sure they will remove much debris, but then the space debris has YET to cause me problems.
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04/28/2013 6:32:57 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: struggle
a LOT of the debris are paint chips, but i guess even a paint chip at Xthousand MPH hitting the right spot can pretty much ruin your day...
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04/28/2013 6:37:22 PM PDT
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Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: BenLurkin
Whatever we are going to do, whatever we have to do, is an expensive solution, All problems that Politicians invent and solve are expensive. If they were not expensive, there would be no reason to do them.
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04/28/2013 6:39:57 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
We use aerogel to collect small particles from comet tails so your idea isn’t far off. I would also get Tethers Unlimited on the job.
http://www.tethers.com/
Using carbon fiber tethers for everything from propellant less maneuvering in space to landing or anchoring to asteroids was at least in part the brain child of physicist and Sci Fi writer Robert Forward. He was one of the founders of Tethers Unlimited and gave very detailed accounts of how the tethers could be used in his book Saturn Rukh. (Who doesn’t love a sci fi story that begins with the sentence, “I’ve got a job for you and it pays a billion.”
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04/28/2013 6:42:09 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: TMSuchman
It could be a money maker for someone who could pull everything together as a space salvage expert.Well, since we already have a vacuum in outer space, it should be a snap.
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04/28/2013 6:42:23 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(The monsters are due on Maple Street)
To: dalereed
An expert is a swede shoe salesman hawking his BS more than 50 miles from home!That is the most profound thing I think I have ever heard.
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posted on
04/28/2013 6:45:47 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
To: struggle
put these dots to scale and you’ll see nothing
To: BenLurkin
Sounds like a full-employment act for NASA Astronauts.
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posted on
04/28/2013 7:17:27 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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