It is easy. Launch thousands of rockets to build a factory in orbit, launch tens of thousands more to constantly supply it with raw materials, then return the finished goods back to Earth. BOOM, you just solved pollution and climate change.
The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a theoretical scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.[3] One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations.[3]
Yeah if capitalism doesn't fall invest in companies that dig through landfills finding salvageable material. Also that dig through cities that flooded near the ocean. Each house will have a non insignificant amount of copper, even if underwater.
It's cheaper to toss out garbage into the endless void than deorbit it in to the sun. Also more poetic or something. Send it out towards the nearest stars as modern Voyager records.
It's very poetic to send out trash heaps to randomly slam into unknown star systems centuries to millennia from now with the kinetic energy of a large nuclear bomb.
YOU CAN'T JUST DUMP POLLUTION IN SPACE
SPACE ISN'T A FUCKING GARBAGE CAN
It is easy. Launch thousands of rockets to build a factory in orbit, launch tens of thousands more to constantly supply it with raw materials, then return the finished goods back to Earth. BOOM, you just solved pollution and climate change.
Just make a cablecar between earth and the space factory
What the
the fugg is a Kessler's Syndrome? :thonk:
The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a theoretical scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.[3] One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations.[3]
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Lol capitalists slowly siphoning all prescious resources on earth and blasting them into an endless void is way too apt a metaphor for it not happen
Yeah if capitalism doesn't fall invest in companies that dig through landfills finding salvageable material. Also that dig through cities that flooded near the ocean. Each house will have a non insignificant amount of copper, even if underwater.
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KPg 2: Revenge of the Comet
It's cheaper to toss out garbage into the endless void than deorbit it in to the sun. Also more poetic or something. Send it out towards the nearest stars as modern Voyager records.
It's very poetic to send out trash heaps to randomly slam into unknown star systems centuries to millennia from now with the kinetic energy of a large nuclear bomb.
Perfect set up to a near-future sci fi movie where the alien invasion is just a retaliatory attack.
mfw my alien civilisation is yeeted out of existence by a rejected batch of paw patrol merch
I like to think we could do some close flybys of exoplanets with it. Give some alien astronomers an 'Oumuamua to have headaches over.
yes -- you'll need a lot better rockets than you can get from Bezos or Musk
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