Late Astronauts Fly In Space Without Medical Certificate

AJ

If they keep on improving lasers, I can envision a number of ground
stations (or aircraft or satellite mounted) that will burn up the junk
in orbit.

Big John
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On 20 Jan 2006 09:51:50 -0800, "AJ" wrote:

More than 9,000 pieces of space debris are orbiting Earth,
a hazard that can be expected to get only worse in the next few years.
And there¹s no workable and economic way to clean up the mess.

this sounds like a job for Merry Maids in Space!

AJ

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Big John wrote:


If they keep on improving lasers, I can envision a number of ground
stations (or aircraft or satellite mounted) that will burn up the junk
in orbit.


Uh -- "burn up", in space, without any oxygen around?

Melt and then vaporize, maybe -- though the vaporized mass might just
reclump into a small moonlet.

And, burned or vaporized, the same amount of mass is still orbiting
around, in a somewhat larger cloud maybe, but at the same speed. Not
sure whether that would be better or worse . . .

Interesting technical problem.