Kessler Syndrome: The Space Debris Problem

[@Jake-lf5yt]

Wow. I only came across this channel not long ago after seeing the studio ghibli video. Definitely a good find. Needless to say, you definitely deserve more credit than you are due. Your videos are so interesting and well made. Hopefully your channel explodes in 2019 :D

[@simialogue]

Exactly how I came across this channel as well.

[@rafipuff]

Your channel is underrated dude, amazing vid!

[@pepsikajri]

As a member of the space industry, I can say this is one of the best videos I've come across on the topic - well researched and excellently delivered. Please keep making more!

[@mariaciafre2505]

After watching the movie "Gravity" with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney - I found your video on KZbin. Thank you again for bringing this issue to light in a nightmarish "disposable" world. (Posted Jan. 9, 2024)

[@diane9247]

This is an excellent film for anyone even remotely interested in space! One night a few years ago, I witnessed a piece of what I was sure was "space junk" streaking across the sky. I could hear it, it was yellow-orange, and traveling at about a 45 deg. angle in my visual field. The sensation was that it was quite close, lower than a plane, and it disappeared beyond the trees. Presumably, it burned up so completely that it was never in the news - I searched for reports for several days! I searched online to see what would have been that color, but every kind of "falling rock" was bright white. I kept asking around, but no one had been outside at 1a.m. So, it remains my own, I guess.

[@danny_1636]

Your video quality is so amazing for a smaller KZbinr like yourself, I’m surprised your not massive yet

[@rikebos]

This is awesome!! Very well made, and all about something I’ve never thought about before but am now super interested in. Great job!!

[@ddxgad]

Oh wow, really great job man! I need to share this with everyone

[@ipeaceful6]

Huh. How interesting. Very good video. Professionally made and super interesting content. Nice job.

[@AsherIsbrucker]

Thanks!

[@EvgeniaMs10]

Great video! :) made me look at the space from another perspective.

[@bibingraj9743]

Beautiful doc. Keep making more!

[@gabrielobanks2621]

Very interesting and captivating to see that you were able to interview the man, Kessler himself. I would have loved to hear more about solutions to the Kessler Syndrome and what Kessler thought would actually work.

[@kayh9477]

beautifully edited video ! thank you :)

[@rebecca_stone]

Love it that you got to talk to Kessler himself! I feel like we humans seriously have to start thinking further into the future instead of short term gains. This problem was predictable. The Earth debris images remind me of those floating islands of plastic waste moving in the ocean currents.

[@880User088]

Really amazing work!

[@PinchiExivion]

Impressive, and informative, and beautiful. Thank you.

[@justin_5631]

it seems like they could make some kind of vast rubbery sheet that unrolls like 10 meters by 10 meters, flies around collecting things for awhile then deorbits. launch those periodically in orbits known not to cross other satellites. like giant sweepers. then again youd need some sort of non-fragmenting rubber-like sheet that has a high chance to collect things. on the other hand even if something went through maybe its velocity would be reduced? im sure experts already thought of it / ruled it out already. any comment suggestions gonna kruger dunning so hard.

[@gerbilnan]

Very interesting! High quality stuff!

[@grandbakunin7046]

Plz make more videos like that for science sake!

[@menisc2797]

Stellar work

[@StonedCrookOriginal]

Donr you mean interSTELLAR work

[@samwallaceart288]

That video had top-notch production and terrific dialogue; like a Vsauce video but focused on one topic. I'm appalled at the low likes.

[@jovante9990]

Why don't we make a ram at an incline using the whipple shielding to basically bounce it towards earth

[@meow5]

Can you put magnets larger than 10cmm in orbit to attract the smaller items that are too small to track and to large to shield?

[@RicardoGarcia-ob8tt]

Marvelous video

[@mikedrop4421]

How is this at only 11k views?

[@alexshenderov4975]

Isn't graveyard orbit gonna make Kessler Syndrome kinda inevitable?

[@AsherIsbrucker]

A graveyard orbit is definitely not ideal, but if lowering the satellite to burn up in the atmosphere is not an option, then it's better than staying put in a crowded orbit with higher risk of collision.

[@pyromaniac1695]

University of Surrey!!!

[@Wandering-Winter]

down on earth Rando: hey so what ever happened to all our metals and shit? Rando 2: its up in space and now earth has none me: no wonder why metal is now so god dam expensive its because we keep shooting it up in space and leaving up there like its out god dam Dumping ground

[@alexma1]

You are good

[@_joapa]

Make more videos holy shit

[@scififan698]

so that explains the 'Great Filter' theory... the devil is in the details.

[@Kai-pc9nx]

Cool

[@evilldead6824]

The best part is rich people want to go up into space for vacation LOL!!!

[@Lone432345]

Elon Musk is working hard to make this a reality.

[@montywright3234]

Why not create an *enormous net and scoop up the garbage?* and send it to the Sun? How hard could it be?

[@selfishaltruist8178]

it'd be like catching bullets with a fishing net while being weightless and floating. Probably a better invention would be a magnet that could redirect the projection towards earth where they could burn up in atmosphere. Problem is that only metal objects could be pulled down.

[@aditya-ml6km]

It is much easier to send something to mars than sending to sun.

[@oliverfalco7060]

First like!

[@TeaPartyActivist]

Amazing! You two guys started out with the presumption that it cannot be fixed. And you also Likened it to CO2 which Presumably will wipe out the planet shortly. When I started my career, I did so in the environmental field thanks largely to the inspiration of Rachel Carlson. Spending time working at EPA and later for a power plant design engineering firm, I realized how the “environmental movement“ and the industries promotion of a hopeless future without The environmental movement prevented us from following cleaner solutions such as nuclear power, and advocacy shared by a number of the original environmentalists. Although being a protagonist expert for upcoming disasters may be profitable, I decided to follow things that actually had a positive impact on the world. I’m sorry Gentlemen but you lost meIn the first 15 seconds of this video.

[@tylerjackson4168]

Was looking forward to this video untill in the first minute it started talking about climate change. 👎

[@nicodifictional540]

The topic is about climate change though?