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This is plastic in the ocean for earth's orbit. We'll never be able to remove the debris. It's only a small amount now, but give it a few hundred years...
by angel_j 8y ago
This is plastic in the ocean for earth's orbit. We'll never be able to remove the debris. It's only a small amount now, but give it a few hundred years...
- marcosdumay 8y ago> but give it a few hundred years... A few hundred years is how long things stay on those orbits.
- Dylan16807 8y agoReplace 'years' with 'days' for this one.
- marcosdumay 8y agoWell, replace on a orbit with on any orbit on my comment, that's closer to what I meant. I was also talking about normal orbits, not the highly excentric stuff you get after an explosion. Since the GP was about long term concerns, that's more fitting. Yes, the debris of this one explosion will be almost all (or maybe literally all) gone in a month. And yes, hundreds of years is still an overstatement. But decades would be an understatement for many of the objects we put into LEO. From severity to probability, nearly everything on news or discussion sites about Kessler Syndrome seems to be a severe misconception.