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Contracts Awarded To Develop Space Fence To Control Space Junk Orbiting Earth:

by TLTheLiberator
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Believe it or not, there's thousands of pieces of space debris in orbit around our planet and it's become a problem.

Story here...


Two $100 Million Contracts Awarded to Develop Space Fence | TPM Idea Lab
  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Here's my solution...Do I get the $100 mil?


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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      We can't fence the border effectively but we can fence the universe.

      I'll have to think about that one.
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        You know how when you drive into a bad neighborhood you can tell by all the trash laying around?
        Earth is the bad neighborhood of the universe.
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      • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
        Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

        We can't fence the border effectively but we can fence the universe.

        I'll have to think about that one.

        Not the universe Kay - just our little planet's atmosphere.

        There is a lot of junk up there.
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    • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      Here's my solution...Do I get the $100 mil?


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      Thanks for the chuckle Kurt.


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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    One evening I happened to be outdoors, and looked up just in time to see a large, bright "shooting star" streak overhead. It seemed to be a surprisingly low altitude.

    The next day someone happened to ask if I had seen the crashing satellite. Apparently a story about it had been on the news.

    What goes up, eventually comes down. There is a lot of garbage circling the planet. What I had not considered was that these things might crash into each other.

    So how will tracking them help prevent crashes? The government will know when a collision is about to happen, but can't do anything about it.

    The Japanese "fish net" sounds interesting.

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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      There is a lot of junk up there.
      Lot of junk down here, too:p

      There may be a time when this idea is practical but I don't think the time is now. We can't stop destruction of the rain forests or wildlife and we have species disappearing in increasing numbers.

      I may be too skeptical on this - and I admit I have not read up on the idea yet in detail - but I think priorities are wrong.

      If we can protect the atmosphere from "space junk" will we then start shooting all of our garbage and waste into space (beyond our protective "shield" because it can't hurt US? I may be totally wrong on this - but these are things I wonder about.

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