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Pentagon: A Space Junk Collision Could Set Off Catastrophic Chain Reaction
Popular Science ^
| 5/27/2010
| Clay Dillow
Posted on 06/04/2010 11:44:04 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: plsvn
"Echo was a ultra thin skin balloon. If lower earth orbit is full of space junk, how long before a large target like that is hit, deflates, is shreaded, and becomes useless?"
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:03:51 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
To: Rebelbase
shreaded
Is that a word?
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:05:08 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
Haven’t you ever heard of shreaded chease?
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:08:32 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
To: Rebelbase
Haven’t you ever heard of shreaded chease?
Oh, yeah. I forgot.
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posted on
06/05/2010 10:12:29 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Las Vegas Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Swordmaker
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posted on
06/05/2010 1:44:48 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: The Cajun
Nuke the junk! How about using the stuff as targets for lasers? It would be darn good practice vaporizing various bits and pieces that are zooming around up there..
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posted on
06/07/2010 8:16:00 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: sonofstrangelove
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posted on
06/07/2010 6:07:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: sonofstrangelove
What is needed is a series of satellites that direct laser energy at pieces of space debris to change their orbit, so they enter the atmosphere.
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posted on
07/04/2010 3:00:21 PM PDT
by
Tax Government
(We ask nothing except that our elected representatives uphold the Constitution.)
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