Where have I heard of the Cascade Effect? Where the disintegration of one large piece of space garbage is caused by a hit from a smaller piece of garbage which creates another cloud of smaller pieces going forth to destroy other orbiting objects and having those pieces go forth, etc., etc.
Eventually all communications/defense/whether observing and other satellites will die an ignominious death and further manned space flight will become impossible. How many years would it take for that Junk-o-sphere to settle down to nice Saturn-like rings?
GREAT! We'll be trading one Megalomaniacal CEO for another. I'd pay big to see Gates and Jobs fighting it out in the ring (perhaps with stockings filled with manure) in the style of WWE.
The folks who come in to clean up after a fire use ozone generators to get rid of the smell of smoke that clings so hard to plastics. Something about broken-chain hyrdocarbons and the bonds in plastics. Ozone is VERY damaging to lungs, so stay out of the room and vent well before going in again, but that's what I'd try first.
Just to be flame-bait, I'll say that home air-purifiers (which are niether food nor drugs, so no help from the FDA) should be banned as the quack devices they are. It might seem nice to smell that "ozone fresh" scent, but the ozone warnings in the big cities aren't kidding.
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Where have I heard of the Cascade Effect? Where the disintegration of one large piece of space garbage is caused by a hit from a smaller piece of garbage which creates another cloud of smaller pieces going forth to destroy other orbiting objects and having those pieces go forth, etc., etc.
Eventually all communications/defense/whether observing and other satellites will die an ignominious death and further manned space flight will become impossible. How many years would it take for that Junk-o-sphere to settle down to nice Saturn-like rings?
Is it time to invest in fiber optics?
GREAT! We'll be trading one Megalomaniacal CEO for another. I'd pay big to see Gates and Jobs fighting it out in the ring (perhaps with stockings filled with manure) in the style of WWE.
The folks who come in to clean up after a fire use ozone generators to get rid of the smell of smoke that clings so hard to plastics. Something about broken-chain hyrdocarbons and the bonds in plastics. Ozone is VERY damaging to lungs, so stay out of the room and vent well before going in again, but that's what I'd try first. Just to be flame-bait, I'll say that home air-purifiers (which are niether food nor drugs, so no help from the FDA) should be banned as the quack devices they are. It might seem nice to smell that "ozone fresh" scent, but the ozone warnings in the big cities aren't kidding. IMHO
I've always called it "Dot-NOT"!