Comments on: Space Debris Illustrated: The Problem in Pictures

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By: joe

joe — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:10:45 +0000

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By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:08:42 +0000

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By: Shaula Brant

Shaula Brant — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:37:14 +0000

We definitely need to get the junk and defunct satellites out of orbit, at least where they pose the most dangers, but having every piece of junk deorbitted is not a real solution either. It would be nice if these items could be placed in a storage orbit, or placed at one of the Earth – Moon Lagrange points (L4 or L5). Use something along the lines of a solar sail to move the stuff; it would take some time to move items, but every little bit will help. They would be out of the way and could be used again as raw materials once we have a more permanent presence in space. Place a solar concentrator out there and melt it down for salvage…along with materials from the moon, to aid in our effort to continually humanize space.

Same thing could even be done for the Hubble telescope, but with that one, maybe it could end up as a part of an on-orbit museum piece at L5.

Idealistic…perhaps…but that and other ideas are out there.

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By: nick

nick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:20:12 +0000

Ant: i dont know much but i do believe in space junk or 'crap' as you put it. I dont know why you think that global warming isnt real? Yes i am religious and i believe in one Plan that i can do anything about but i do believe in what ive seen and not "Fifth dimentional energy". thanks with love,

-Cracker

By: Satweavers

Satweavers — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:55:47 +0000

There was a shortlived TV comedy in the late '70s about Space Garbage Men called "Quark" . I never watched it, but might have if I'd known how visionary it was. It's hard to imagine a solution to this problem. Retrieving the stuff, chasing it around, matching velocities, even with an autonomous vehicle would require too much fuel. If the satellite killing inertial impact vehicles proposed for security and anti satellite are ever used, we can say goodbye to GPS, weather forcasting, media broadcast, and all critical telecommunications and data transfer. We would be doomed!

By: john black

john black — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:08:42 +0000

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By: mystery fish

mystery fish — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:35:06 +0000

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mystery fish — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:34:23 +0000

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By: Willy dilly.

Willy dilly. — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:47:56 +0000

You mean this?

http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/24640

By: NAL

NAL — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:45:41 +0000

Here is a tv-show based on this subject.

broadcaster (dot) com/clip/24640

By: Kelli

Kelli — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:35:08 +0000

All I can say is NOT-SO-MUCH!!!!LOL!!!!

By: Toby1

Toby1 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:48:44 +0000

I would put a big parabolic mirror up there and focus the suns radiation into a beamm and vaporise them. They would be harmless if turned into gas.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:08:11 +0000

If we can get all this space debris back to earth, or the moon, or to a space station, can it be recycled so we don't have to fight the gravity well to send precious metal into orbit? I know it will be years and years in the future, but what else will we do withall this space debris? Toss it? Isn't that how we got into this mess in the first place? I am not a tree hugger, just a pragmatist, I think

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:00:16 +0000

Ant: I'd love to know where you get your information about "Fifth dimentional energy"

Global warming isn't real to you? Greenhouse gases is made up and 'crap"

Just how long do you think we can do what we do to the planet and NOT pay a price?

I'm not religous either. But I am educated.

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:57:07 +0000

We may as well put a "No Vacancy" sign up on Earth. That's where we are headed.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:13:34 +0000

thanks for the news

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:19 +0000

Its not space junk everybody. Some very valid comments objecting to the crap we've been fed. The original images relate to fifth dimensional energy changes but as usual we're left to feel its our own personal problem like global warming. Same sketch, same lies, ultimately the same people behind it. We are not alone and we never have been. Its a very special time to be here on earth to witness the changes for ourselves for we are a part of all that is. And no I'm not religious at all. At all.

By: Emission Nebula

Emission Nebula — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:34:23 +0000

Brad,

Of course they sucked. But still…

it doesnt matter how you look at it, people use up natural resources, dump millions of gallions of oil in oceans, dump toxic waste in large amounts in bodies of water and land, poison the air, etc etc…
And then when there is no more room for us in a certain area, we move to another and start the whole process over again.

Me, Im all for it. I need things like electricity, and a toilet. But we are parasitic. Go look up the definition. Then go look up what we do to our host we live on.
Admittidly, we do try to clean up after ourselves. And a good example of that are the trees. Alot of people think we are chopping down too many trees for paper, and paper products, etc etc. But we also plant ALOT of trees of over the world. Well, at least I know we do here in America.

Besides, its really just a metaphor. An extremely degrading metaphor that people who are "proud to be human" lol, hate to be called.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:27:16 +0000

Emission Nebula your examples suck. Monkeys drop the husks of what they eat exactly where they are standing. And they, like fish happen to crap and piss wherever they are at the time. Now if they had technology they would have a problem with waste management. People say primitive humans lived in harmony with the environment: what a load of garbage! a) there were less of them and b) their waste products were mostly non-toxic. Now if you want to live by their example, then fine- live out your life infested with vermin and die young, probably of tooth decay.

By: madchemist

madchemist — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:48:42 +0000

Maybe a solution could be to create a foam ball with materials like soft polyurethane foams and have them expand so that they become several meters wide.
When the debris will impact the foam, this would create friction enough to slow it down, with a result to either return to earth or even better to remain inside the foam. This solution sounds cool or otherwise I had too much to drink!

By: Marc Ouellette

Marc Ouellette — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:16:09 +0000

It's enough to wonder… if there is intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, would they want the human race to expand its' presence beyond Earth, considering what kind of mess we made of our own homeworld?

Also, I remember something about a recent artificial space probe we sent out to collect space dust, using a gel-type collector. Perhaps we should consider sending out a similar, gel-type collector into orbit to aggregate some of that space junk?

By: IgniteMe

IgniteMe — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:12:27 +0000

Simply de-orbiting spacejunk and letting it burn up in the atmosphere is a really bad idea… Air quality is already bad enough…

And seriously, flying it into the sun?! Yeah, let's alter the local gravity of our planet and spiral in/out right along with it (granted, it'd take awhile…).

Prevention seems to be the best policy – we need to develop procedures for handling nuts & bolts from the get go… And, of course, have a recovery program budget for decommissioned satellites factored into the initial build…

SERIOUSLY?!?! Fly it into the sun?! I'd laugh if it weren't so moronic…