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Satellite Collision Debris May Hamper Space Launch
Matt_dk writes "The debris from a recent collision involving two communications satellites could pose a serious threat for future launches of spacecraft into a geostationary orbit, a Russian scientist said on Friday. Future launches will have to be adjusted with regard to the fact that the debris [from the collision] has spread over an 800-km area and will gather at a common orbit in 5-6 years."
Well, though you might not have thought such a thing was necessary or useful per se' I'm here to tell you that a laser based in orbit than can be used to vaporize such debris is a laser worth having. Oh well
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How much energy does do you think it takes to boil a few hundred kilograms of iron?
Nothing a sufficiently large matter/anti-matter reaction couldn't generate, provided you have enough dilithium to safely regulate the reaction.
It isn't that hard, people! We had this stuff 50 years ago on Star Trek.
Vacuum in a Vacuum? seriously?
All you have to do is use a Higgs reactor as the power source - use a fusion reaction as a primary energy source to drive ablation plates within an inertial confinement field that then compresses yttrium arsenide into a Grand Unified Theory quark-gluon plasma, and store the radiative energy from the breaking of the supersymmetry during the cooling process in superconducting inductors. God, why do I have to spell things out for everyone.
Then again, if you have antimatter, why not just send it at the debris?
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Duck Dodgers? Did he ever collect space garbage? I think who we really need is Quark.
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Apparently we have a need for Mega Maid... hopefully she won't go from suck to blow.
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Furthermore, sharks can't live in space - duh.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
...That first the polarity must be reversed.
Because it would tear away our stratosphere on the way up, you insensitive clod. Why don't you just go side with the debris if that's how you want to roll? Some of us are trying to save a planet here!
All the cool planets sort their space debris into convenient rings using the gravitational pulls of small moons. We just need to invest in placing a few in low orbits and they will quickly destabilize anything in orbits not resonant with their own.
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Furthermore, sharks can't live in space - duh.
Sharks in frikkin' spacesuits with frikkin' lasers on their heads?
Anyone who has played adventure games knows there's no space janitor like Roger Wilco!