Who's going to fix the space junk problem?

[Admin]

The growing problem of space junk poses a risk to future space missions, but the solution isn't going to be easy.

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[Catastrophe]

If nobody cares, the answer is very simple. Accidents with manned or unmanned vessels will occur. These may result in deaths. There will come a point where sane 'astronauts' will change their occupations. Space exploration will either cease or continue to get more difficult/dangerous. This situation will continue until either space exploration is discontinued, or some effort is made to clear the mess.

Of course, there may well be influences meanwhile from another mass - suicidal overpopulation. Even now we are destroying rain forests which contain the plants operating photosynthesis which produces the oxygen we breathe. Less plant life, less oxygen - and more organisms to breathe what there is. And this is only one facet.

Cat

 

[Erez Buchnik]

If nobody cares, the answer is very simple. Accidents with manned or unmanned vessels will occur. These may result in deaths. There will come a point where sane 'astronauts' will change their occupations. Space exploration will either cease or continue to get more difficult/dangerous. This situation will continue until either space exploration is discontinued, or some effort is made to clear the mess.

Of course, there may well be influences meanwhile from another mass - suicidal overpopulation. Even now we are destroying rain forests which contain the plants operating photosynthesis which produces the oxygen we breathe. Less plant life, less oxygen - and more organisms to breathe what there is. And this is only one facet.

Cat

The overall energy and money spent when those masses were flown out there is enormous - and yet almost all cleanup proposals involve deorbiting & burning up the debris - wasting even more energy and money, and losing the mass itself.

Maybe there is a way to solve the garbage problem both in space and on Earth: a habitable 'Garbage-Moon' made of space-debris + Earth garbage. We aggregate and condense space-debris, add to it Earth garbage, and gradually form a 'core'. We then cover that core with soil & plants. Technologies that are being developed for Mars and for our first Moon, for cultivating an atmosphere, artificially increasing gravity or applying an anti-radiation magnetic field, will be more easily applicable to the 'Garbage-Moon'.

So, several decades from now we could already be colonizing the 'Garbage-Moon' - possibly 2 days flight away. Is that more far-fetched than colonizing Mars?

 

[Clovis]

View: https://youtu.be/w_PWL0oZzOc
. And more is coming.

 

[Clovis]

Yeah it is an eventual reality.

 

[Clovis]

Something unexpected, about like this. Where a huge satellite comes apart. Out of its predicted orbit.

View: https://youtu.be/BejM1biN_8k