I did a calculation once upon a time when I designed a 300 man space base, lofting the water alone would cost Billions of $ per year, assuming a Space Shuttle model launch cost. Far cheaper to loft energy from ground based mechanisms to combat space clutter. If the space gun aka John Hunter concept was still alive, we could send up ice less expensively in that manner ala Jules Verne. Ground based LASERS are impractical at this stage of their development, which leaves ground based kinetic projectiles as the sole cost effective, short term solution to the problem.
"Dear Jeebus, please let the asteroid hit the "Face On Mars" dead center, just to piss off that con artist Hoagland.
Thanks!"
Wondeful, another person with their head way up their ass, so far in fact, they probably deny that we landed on the moon, or their own existence, Greek thinking machines, Iraqi batteries, and other so-called "unexplicable" phenomena!
My thoughts are all of these things simply exist due to prior HUMAN civilizations, no extra-solar origins are needed, simply belief based on observation and prior knowledge. Folks like Edgar Cayce, Zecharia Sitchin, and Richard Hoagland have brought out truth from centuries, millenia of just plain lies and disinformation. Have a nice day, Mr. I do not believe that you exist either!
"Of course this would probably cause an interstellar war with the Martians, but still..."
Nah, that war with the Martians ended 65 million years ago, when they blew up the home (5th) planet with their worm hole doomsday device, and both camps of survivors in space settled the only viable candidate planet in this Solar System, Earth. Yes, we are their descendants. LETS TRY REAL HARD NOT TO REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE IN A ROW, PEOPLE!
The near term solution is layered defenses around each satellite of high value, these impact bumpers will act as sacrificial lambs to slow down the debris and protect the satellite. There are problems and limitations with any layered defense solution, but these can be overcome. This is not a solution for all debris, just most of the small and annoying stuff. The cost for the layered defense can be borne by the User Community at large.
One long term solution is to "steer" the debris towards re-entry using directed energy management solutions with ground based energy projection. Another method would utilize shpeparding technology to "herd" the larger pieces towards LaGrange points for eventual smelting and re-use. The removal of the smaller pieces is an enormous problem and would require energy projection and management in use over a long time span to solve the problem. Since no one on this planet seems to care for long term survival of our human species by getting our seed off planet onto other heavenly bodies, I see no problem here.
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What a bunch of MO...RONS!
I did a calculation once upon a time when I designed a 300 man space base, lofting the water alone would cost Billions of $ per year, assuming a Space Shuttle model launch cost. Far cheaper to loft energy from ground based mechanisms to combat space clutter. If the space gun aka John Hunter concept was still alive, we could send up ice less expensively in that manner ala Jules Verne. Ground based LASERS are impractical at this stage of their development, which leaves ground based kinetic projectiles as the sole cost effective, short term solution to the problem.
"Dear Jeebus, please let the asteroid hit the "Face On Mars" dead center, just to piss off that con artist Hoagland. Thanks!" Wondeful, another person with their head way up their ass, so far in fact, they probably deny that we landed on the moon, or their own existence, Greek thinking machines, Iraqi batteries, and other so-called "unexplicable" phenomena! My thoughts are all of these things simply exist due to prior HUMAN civilizations, no extra-solar origins are needed, simply belief based on observation and prior knowledge. Folks like Edgar Cayce, Zecharia Sitchin, and Richard Hoagland have brought out truth from centuries, millenia of just plain lies and disinformation. Have a nice day, Mr. I do not believe that you exist either!
"Of course this would probably cause an interstellar war with the Martians, but still..."
Nah, that war with the Martians ended 65 million years ago, when they blew up the home (5th) planet with their worm hole doomsday device, and both camps of survivors in space settled the only viable candidate planet in this Solar System, Earth. Yes, we are their descendants. LETS TRY REAL HARD NOT TO REPEAT THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE IN A ROW, PEOPLE!
The near term solution is layered defenses around each satellite of high value, these impact bumpers will act as sacrificial lambs to slow down the debris and protect the satellite. There are problems and limitations with any layered defense solution, but these can be overcome. This is not a solution for all debris, just most of the small and annoying stuff. The cost for the layered defense can be borne by the User Community at large. One long term solution is to "steer" the debris towards re-entry using directed energy management solutions with ground based energy projection. Another method would utilize shpeparding technology to "herd" the larger pieces towards LaGrange points for eventual smelting and re-use. The removal of the smaller pieces is an enormous problem and would require energy projection and management in use over a long time span to solve the problem. Since no one on this planet seems to care for long term survival of our human species by getting our seed off planet onto other heavenly bodies, I see no problem here.