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Originally Posted by DamienB
Only recently I heard an interview on ABC adelaide with a lady who is classed as a Space Architect. She is studying the junk thats there. What I can't understand is why we can't retrieve it?
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Money, it is as simple as that. Who pays for it? How do you change the economic incentives to get everyone to do the right thing and not "pollute"?
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Originally Posted by DamienB
Surely at some point the junk up there is a huge danger to future projects. Aka launching rockets, commercial flights into orbit etc. Imagine hearing in 20 years "25 people died on a virgin galactic flight, it was believed they collided with the left overs of an AOL satellite from 1996"
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Check out Kessler Syndrome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome