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A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)
- uramfndit 7y agothis is insanely dumb
- rbanffy 7y agoA satellite that can launch pellets in very specific directions at 8 km/s can also be called an orbital canon.
- UI_at_80x24 7y agoMass Drivers for fun and profit? All it needs is tungsten ammo.
- rbanffy 7y agoDepleted uranium, perhaps.
- outworlder 7y ago"Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest sob in space" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M
- Aardwolf 7y agoOn slashdot, this would have the tag "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"
- 3pt14159 7y agoI'm normally the critic of dangerous satellite stuff (anti-satellite weapons, spy satellites getting dangerously close to each other, etc) but I love this idea. The problem seems well defined, there's lots of eyes on it and the result would be so grand. Meteor showers are so beautiful and having people enjoy them more often is so wonderful.
- outworlder 7y agoMaybe they will be motivated to preserve dark skies then. Maybe.
- kawfey 7y agoI wonder if the artificial meteors ionize well enough to enable meteor scatter propagation on VHF/UHF amateur radio like regular meteors do.