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Can we lose Space for decades due to space debris?
- DanBC 7y agoNASA has a nice website about space debris. It includes some photographs of damage caused by orbital debris. https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/ https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
- bolkhovsky 7y agoYep, that's insane how only 1 cm piece of shit flying on the space speed can do that big mess.
- simonblack 7y agoWe'll finally do something when the cost of cleaning-up is less than the cost of the damage caused by space debris. A forerunner of the space clean-up is the ocean clean-up. We're just beginning to do that now after centuries of mindless 'chuck it overboard' behaviour.
- bolkhovsky 7y agoIndeed, money often the most powerful driver for changing something that's broken