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Posted by michael on from the clean-sweep dept.

wvanhuffel writes "This is a call for /.'s to put their thinking caps on. The US Airforce, NASA and other agencies are looking for ideas to find and eliminate threats from space debris to craft (space, in the use of). Personally I like the idea of "robots to serve as roving garbage scowls" - my question is "How do they identify 'garbage'?" - Would the ISS qualify?" I don't know what happened to the laser broom.

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  1. Here it comes... by JohnPM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes it's time for slashdotters to put their thinking caps on. I'm sure our geek aura will penetrate a problem that has had the best minds of the world's space agencies stumped for decades.

    I await with glee the hoards of posts suggesting enormous ballistic inflatable penguins and fleets of linux powered robotic red swingline staplers. But what about prevention in the future? Easy, just make all space objects run Windows, that way they will crash themselves into the blue ocean of death eventually.

    There, I've got it out of the way early so hopefully others won't need to.

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  2. Obligatory Spaceballs reference by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Spaceball 1 has now become ... Mega Maid!"

  3. Where's Wilco when you need him!?! by rasjani · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think NASA should hire Roger Wilco to clean up the mess. He has excellent CV for this kind of stuff..

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