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07-08-2010, 02:41 PM
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Searching for Travolta...
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brisbane, Australia.
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Space Junk.
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07-08-2010, 02:57 PM
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Fast Scope & Fast Engine
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Yep sure is a lot of junk.
Looks like you will be just visiting a junk yard up there.
Spacewalking would be a dangerous job.
Cheers Kev.
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07-08-2010, 03:52 PM
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No More Infinities
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Townsville
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Yep, sure is Suzy. You know you could make a killing if you started up a space salvage company and retrieved a lot of this junk 
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07-08-2010, 05:08 PM
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Quietly watching
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The Chinese didn't do any favors when they recently tested their missile on an orbiting satellite, I guess done to show the rest of the world they had the technology, but it created an awful mess up there. Plus all the bits and bobs dropped lost or failed in previous missions by various nations. A piece of debris traveling at 20,000 km/h can do a lot of damage.... Faster than a speeding bullet.....
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07-08-2010, 06:07 PM
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Searching for Travolta...
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It's only going to get worse, right? Or is there a plan - anyone know?
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07-08-2010, 07:32 PM
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Location: Perth
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A Tholian Web might do the trick! 
What with all the new fandangled ""LAZEEERS"" out there, surely they (powers that be) could think of a network of Space Debris Destroying Satellites (SDDS tm).
Using the new Military Lasers out there :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL-Xi...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmEU...eature=related
Some carefully placed SDDS's would clear up the skies!!!! Just make sure all EVA astronauts are inside, in case HAL thinks they are UNdesirable Space AVerted OUtcast Remote bodYs ( UNSAVOURY )!
Bartman 
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07-08-2010, 08:14 PM
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No More Infinities
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Originally Posted by Suzy
It's only going to get worse, right? Or is there a plan - anyone know?
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It's only going to get worse...there's no plan to scoop up the garbage, so to speak 
Might cost a bit, but someone is going to make money out of it one day.
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07-08-2010, 08:15 PM
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No More Infinities
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bartman
A Tholian Web might do the trick!
What with all the new fandangled ""LAZEEERS"" out there, surely they (powers that be) could think of a network of Space Debris Destroying Satellites (SDDS tm).
Using the new Military Lasers out there :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL-Xi...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmEU...eature=related
Some carefully placed SDDS's would clear up the skies!!!! Just make sure all EVA astronauts are inside, in case HAL thinks they are UNdesirable Space AVerted OUtcast Remote bodYs ( UNSAVOURY )!
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Getting in on the acronym act already
With that, you'll have them up there in no time!!!
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07-08-2010, 09:25 PM
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No More Infinities
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07-08-2010, 09:35 PM
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Oh, I See You Are Empty!
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Laramie, WY - United States of America
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Originally Posted by From the link provided
approximately 50,000 of the half-million or more debris objects greater than 1cm
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WOW! ... So, how's Virgin Galactic gonna avoid all that junk?
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07-08-2010, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by OICURMT
WOW! ... So, how's Virgin Galactic gonna avoid all that junk?
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Richard Branson has a Galactic Seized Chastity Belt (GSCB tm)........hence the ""VIIIIIRGIN"" 
and of course the SDDS's ( tm) which by now he has taken the patent from me whilst he read this forum! 
Bartman
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07-08-2010, 10:11 PM
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Like to learn
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What about all the smaller pieces? even a 5mm fastener off some booster travelling at 20K KMH would kill an astronaut on an EVA.
As more of this junk hits other junk at such high speed won't we end up with millions more partials becoming logarithmically smaller in size but exponentially growing in number?
Will we in years to come have a fog of small fragments that may make space travel difficult and much more dangerous?
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07-08-2010, 10:21 PM
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Just cant get enough
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Australind, WA, Australia
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So. . . Is it just me or is most of the junk over one side of the Earth?
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07-08-2010, 10:26 PM
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Heya Ben,
I thought the same thing but then read the small print under the pic!
. Debris on the eastern side of the image are in the Earths shadow and so not visible to the eye. AFP PHOTO
Pardon the pun but does that clear it up?
Bartman
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08-08-2010, 01:33 AM
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Oh, I See You Are Empty!
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Laramie, WY - United States of America
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Hey, if we could change the orbit of a small asteroid to go into low gravity orbit, it should sweep everything away (whether working or not)... then we could start over and do it right this time... (plus the surfers would have better waves...  )
Thoughts? Comments?
OIC!
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08-08-2010, 09:55 AM
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No More Infinities
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Townsville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OICURMT
Hey, if we could change the orbit of a small asteroid to go into low gravity orbit, it should sweep everything away (whether working or not)... then we could start over and do it right this time... (plus the surfers would have better waves... )
Thoughts? Comments?
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Nah...go one better. Just fit a few rockets to the Moon. Shift her into a lower orbit (outside the Roche Limit, of course) and let the gravity of the Moon (and it's bulk) suck it all up
That'll also provide the surfers with some decent waves
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08-08-2010, 12:02 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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08-08-2010, 12:54 PM
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Registered User
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Originally Posted by renormalised
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And longer solar eclipses!! 
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08-08-2010, 01:22 PM
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No More Infinities
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Townsville
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
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Mega tides, huge storms, vast flooding, all sort of volcanic activity....lovely 
Mind you, Occy, Rabbit's, Beach's and a few of the boys and girls would be breaking out the long boards for one last ride
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