Can ERA solve the Kessler Syndrome?
I solved it in KSP by putting an indestructible 2km^2 panel in orbit that would catch all the debris.
>>65077887I know OP is a faggot 100% of the time but this is astonishingly retarded even for that.>>65077892fpbp
>>65077887No. Kessler syndrome can only be solved by intentionally orbiting large whipple shields.
>>65077887...No? It would be better to use spaced armor or giant foam blocks. In fact, it's better to forget any armor and just get ground based lasers to vaporize and de-orbit debris.
>>65078337I cam here to post this
>>65078347And we both got ninja'd by >>65077943
>>65077887lmao, you remind me of a girl on my class who believed a good way to deal with nuclear waste was to "shoot it to space and blow it up there, because then it's gone"
>>65078337space spaced armor?
>>65078386Okay, but what if you just launched it from a rocket on the south pole and didn't blow it up?
>>65078397Decay heat would melt the ice and form a boiling lake of radioactive water. Some of the byproducts would slip into the atmosphere and get scattered by the polar winds all over the world. Much safer to just put the waste at the bottom of a used up oil well.
>>65078386I might out myself as a retard here, but what's the problem with that (aside from it being ungodly expensive)?So long as the actual blowing-upping is done far away that the debris doesn't end up in earth's orbit, I don't see why it couldn't be done. Get it past the moon, and it's some ayylmao's problem
>>65078534> (aside from it being ungodly expensive)That's the heart of it, really. There's also safety with the rocket blowing up or not getting far enough away but that's mostly just a matter of paying for precautions.
>>65078390Spaced space armor? English was not designed for this.
>>65078637Raumschiffschottpanzerung.
>>65077887Just put a laser into high orbit and use it to nudge the debris into a decaying orbit so it burns up in the atmosphere. The laser can simply pulse at any piece of debris that way even if it is tumbling it will be propelled towards the earth.>inb4 muh faggy outspace treaty against weapons in spaceIt was always stupid and Kennedy was a traitor, we could have had nuclear pulse propulsion battleships and held thousands of nukes of Damocles above the Ruskies' heads. We could also put 200 million tons into orbit as we please, go to Mars in two weeks, or get to Saturn in two months.If fucking hate peaceniks and libtards so much.
>>65078670Just do it from the ground, easier maintenance, more power. And scientists have been working on adaptive optics for telescopes that can probably help with some of the atmospheric effects too.
>>65077887>solveFuck that. I want to initiate it.
>>65077887There's nothing to solve. Kessler Syndrome is a myth.
>>65078670how you do find a inch sized ball bearing in orbit before it hits something important?
>>65078546As opposed to what, the expense of securing it in a geologically stable vault? We're approaching a point where launching nuclear waste into the sun is economically feasible.
>>65078337>ground basedCould you get away with orbital using solar or RTG to charge?
>>65077887We need to shoot rockets into space with gigantic metal magnetic nets to catch the space trash. Once we got it all, use another, bigger magnet to pull the trash back to earth and have it burn up in the atmosphere. Trust me I'm a professional
>>65077887>make more fucking fragments to collide with more things A fucking Russian made this thread.
>>65078390>>65078637Space space armor.And when it inevitably fails we will be able to say "the space space armor got got."
>>65079042Radar. You don't actually need to find each ball bearing, you just have to find areas of high debris density and then sweep the area until you stop getting radar returns. >>65079043Abandoned Oil Wells. They can be multiple miles deep and everything valuable has already been extracted. Even if they're in geologically unstable spots they're so deep in the ground that it'll take centuries for the waste to rise to the surface via natural means. A single mile depth is enough to be bellow any groundwater and the Oklo nuclear reactor proves that nuclear waste doesn't travel well through rock even with groundwater. Even when we run out of pre-existing wells we still have the infrastructure to drill new ones, courtesy of the oil industry. Currently, Deep Isolation is planning on making brand new boreholes specifically for nuclear waste disposal.
>>65077887>We have a problem with space debris from explosions>Let's use more explosions and create more debris to solve the problem
>>65080569Fight fire with fire.
>>65077887just put a really big magnet in orbit until it's done
>>65077887I have thought about how to solve the Kessler SyndromeWhy not release millions of nanomachines that latch on to space debris to increase their mass and make them succumb to gravity?Nanomachines son.
>>65077887>Can ERA solve the Kessler Syndrome?Astronauts wear ERA on their space suits when doing extra vehicule activity (working outside the spacecraft). If any debris hits the spacesuit the reactive armor will deflect the object, thus saving the astronaut, just like the russians puting ERA all over their bodies.
>>65080695Nanomachines are vulnerable to UV, temperature shifts, and radiation. All of which are abundant in space.
>>65077909based ksp lunatic.
>>65080753just slap a coat of UV resistant, insulating, lead paint on them obviously
>>65080869Nanomachines latched onto the lead paint rather than the space debris. EPA is on the phone. Something about lead rain.
>>65078386>>65078534Why bother with blowing it up though? Just get it out of the earths orbit so we never see it or any potential debris from it again.
