The Rising Dangers of Space Junk: A Growing Mess Up There | SLICE SCIENCE | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Today, the problem of rubbish in space has become a nightmare for astronauts. The amount of debris in space has been steadily increasing for the past 20 years as more and more satellites have been placed in orbit and numerous missiles have been tested. In 2009, two working satellites collided sending tons of new space trash into orbit travelling at an incredible speed.
This kind of event creates a vicious circle as each time debris collides, more and more waste is produced. All those involved in the conquest of space are now forced to monitor the clouds of waste constantly and to divert their working satellites in case of emergency. But many satellites have been “forgotten” and will inevitably cause collisions. Currently, all efforts to minimize or avoid this debris are inadequate and may have heavy consequences on our satellites and other activities on Earth. It’s high time we cleaned up our space mess!
Throughout the world, engineers have been coming up with more and more inventive schemes to clear the space trash and put their inventions to the test: magnetic nets in Japan, disintegrating lasers in Australia, garbage collecting satellites in Switzerland, waste hunting vessels in Europe and gas atomizing rockets in the USA. Star wars will not happen… but the war on waste has been declared.
Documentary: Space Smash
Directed by: Bertrand Loyer
Production: Saint Thomas Productions

[@vascodesena]

Humanity's greatest achievement, the first species to create its own asteroid belt...

[@stevenrussell5340]

Lololololo!!!! Too funny, but oh so true.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

The Great Garbage Belt

[@michaelhowsare5508]

NOT REALLY ,SPACE DOESN'T EXIST

[@stevenrussell5340]

I'll have what you're on but make it a double. @@michaelhowsare5508 😉

[@Todayus91]

All lies 100%

[@n.b.p.davenport7066]

No matter where we go or travel we have to dump a bunch of garbage everywhere

[@irisbaez1972]

Meaning? We are animals no human. better yet: Humanoids, no human. We are something it shouldn't exist.

[@sheldonmurphy6031]

I remember in 89, that my science teacher began talking about environmental disasters rising in regards to our types of pollution. After we covered Earth, he began talking about the trash we are creating in space. He stated that by the time we reach 2020, we will potentially have so much space trash from satalites and rockets, that they will begin blocking our view of the stars. Space junk will replace stars. He went much further about this problem, to include satalite collisions, and how it can take only 1 rogue satalite to set off a chain of distruction, sending us back a hundred years. I remember knowing that i will be in my 40's when this will take place. Even though we haven't reached that point yet, knowing what we know now, then adding Star-Link, we are swiftly coming to that point. We have pooed all over Earth, and thats our own doing; but knowing that we are doing it in space too just makes me nauseous!

[@tekmepikcha6830]

Best space exploration documentary on KZbin in a very long time! This was like a movie and really held my attention. Well done.

[@nicksavage4763]

Finally a DOC without Mush And Propaganda

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[@Roberob1189]

Right, I clicked on it not sure if I wanted to stick around and I’m happy I did.

[@ironheart34]

@@SLICE_Scienceis this Jeremy Irons narrating???

[@testingtesting4534]

Scotty, more power to the Deflector Shields. there’s a bunch of Garbage out here!

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Being a small town kid in a place that doesn't have much light pollution. I've watched the night sky since the 1970's It's become a very busy place up there

[@newforestpixie5297]

since the 1970s I’ve watched our small town beneath the night sky & it’s become progressively quieter to a point where there’s constant air traffic for Bournemouth Airport 10 miles away & nothing on the roads bar the occasional boy racer .

[@mysticnomad3577]

Did you look up in the sky with your eyes closed? Absolutely nothing is happening. Go look.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

No doubt

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

​@@mysticnomad3577so, when you look up at night you don't notice anything in space, better get some glasses.

[@NONANTI]

@@newforestpixie5297 boy racers shouldn't be going in road bars

[@9-23-15]

Maybe do a volunteer trash pickup that put up signs saying. " This streach of Space was cleaned up by the Rotary Culb #369"

[@SLICE_Science]

Rotary Club #369: Keeping Space Clean, one orbit at a time.

[@jeffo4817]

R u joking or not?

[@9-23-15]

@@jeffo4817 I was just trying to be funny.

[@jeffo4817]

@@9-23-15 whos mr rotary? i havent heard that joke

[@9-23-15]

@@jeffo4817 I haven't met him. The Rotary Clubs are well known for doing community service and cleaning up the Freeways ect.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

If there’s one thing we humans excel at, it’s making a mess and not cleaning it up. Given the quantity up there, and the probable value of those materials now, you’d think someone would have developed a recovery operation. Who owns the parts in space? Is it international waters and those salvage rules apply?

[@UQRXD]

Not for top secret stuff.

[@KEB129]

All these starlink sattellites make me very worried!

[@madmadmal]

About 365 Starlink sattelites have already been deorbited. SpaceX has been proactive about not adding to space junk.

[@collinhenry3722]

No more privacy

[@Eagle-nq2mv]

Wherever we go we are dirtbags.They can figure everything out so they should invent a way to clean this junk up.

[@loud865]

We need Mr Beast and Mark Rober to team up and figure out how to clean space

[@Hoxgene]

Fantastic piece, phenomenal work thank you for sharing!

[@jeremyshipley8245]

The best thing about us humans is that we are temporary. Unfortunately our trash is forever...

[@wetheworldschildren]

A great watch found this documentry very educational and very interesting thank you x

[@masoudfaramarzi9065]

Thanks for the documentary video.

[@masoudfaramarzi9065]

🙏

[@JWRay-xh9wl]

I'm waiting for a cascade collision event on a large scale... And while the sky above us is on fire from debris coming in... All the newest advanced tech we have that rely on what's above,go dark, and who knows when it'll be back.

[@SLICE_Science]

This would be awesome for a post-apocalyptic movie or series!

[@jodicobb6382]

This maybe true... all those Internet 1's of Musk And those others.

[@stevenrussell5340]

Plus, there is no telling where or how much debris that could destroy a city and kill people is up there. Leave the junk alone.

[@walshmjs]

How about placing a charge on space junk left by countries to be paid up until they remove it all. Like 100M per month with interest . Then ban them from launching anything if they default.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

And the customers you and me pay more for everything? I personally am not wealthy so make people even poorer!

[@user-mm4bb7wt8u]

I second the vote!

[@limabravo6065]

For the objects that can be tracked a mid altitude orbital laser platform or platforms of a few kilowatts in power could be used to move debris. Picosecond bursts like that which removes tattoos could be used to shoot a bit of debris, oblate a bit of the surface which acts like a little thruster to push it into the atmosphere. There'd need to be cooperation between all the space agencies with the understanding that it would not be used on any active space.based infrastructure. The politics would be the major challenge, the laser, targeting, and power are relatively easy

[@mulder2400]

Regarding Spheres in Space🌍 and Comets: The on screen CGI showing spherical ball🌝🌍⚽objects (w/no specular highlights!) floating in "Space" is pure nonsense. Our Sun and Moon are local ionizing gas plasma luminaries, travelling within the Tropics. Earth is a fixed level Plane of existence made of fossilized, mineralized biology of mainly ancient mega titanic Dragons🐉some thousands of miles long, turned to limestone and granite🗻mountains. The term is nucleophilic substitution, flesh to stone. The 38 Transition Metals (Periodic Table) we use today literally came from these Titans veins, and arteries. The mega titanic fish 🐟🐠🐡give us most of the (SiO2) Silicon Dioxide, and (Si) Silica Dessert sands, exactly like the Sahara (titan fish) desert ! You still here ? 💫 lol. Space "rocks" e.g. Asteroids, Meteors (meat🥩) and of course Comets, are the tough fossil remains of these titans (mostly dragons🐉🐲). The Void of space and level Earth was called the "Raqia" in ancient Hebrew (Latin-Firmament), and "the Expanse" is so massive we get Hyperbolic, and Interstellar (now) Comets. Due to Magnetic Force, when these massive transition metal (conductive) laden space fossils get near the Earth's EMF, the Anode is discharging electrons into the "Comet" nucleus and taking protons from it. The Comet is now a hot cathode from a cold state (far away) and Sublimation-Phase Transition (from solid to gaseous state) is causing it to discharge carbonaceous dust and microbes etc. by the hundreds of Tons an hour as a Type2 Comet, e.g. science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/19apr_isonids above Earth. The 3600 yrs. ago Thera Eruption marked last cycle of energetic Comets, and it was called the "Shar" in ancient Sumerian, the "Completion of the Circuit". The electrical Shar is likely an intentionally induced 👽Cosmic Cycle, which adds raw material etc. (Proton Density, Radial Velocity) to the outer magnetic field of the Toroidal Vortex EMF above the level Earth, as it weakens over time. The "Solar Wind" is actually the measured strength of the EMF Torus (AKA magneto/heliopause) without it, the harmful ionizing UVC radiation from the Void above would make life on Earth impossible. The last Passover 3600 years ago (Thera/Minoan eruption) was obviously much, much worse. I figured this out, at far less than NASA $26 Billion a Year budget. 😎 I want a raise, dammit. lol 💲

[@TheDwightMamba]

If you were somehow stationary and the ISS went past you, your eyes wouldn't be able to detect it. Now try to target a few thousand bolts, each doing 20,000 MPH.

[@limabravo6065]

@@TheDwightMamba you do understand that this system won't have someone sitting in it, aiming the laser like Marvin the Martian. I was thinking more along the lines of using these new fangled devices called computers. The various space agencies could load this platforms "computer" with radar identified targets, providing orbital details of the debris. We could give the "computer" radar, lidar, optical target acquisition capabilities along with some form of object recognition to tell debris from not debris. And if you're not aware computers are very much faster than humans are and while orbital speeds are stupid fast, a lasers beam moves at the speed of light. Light speed is far stupider in terms of speed in fact its the stupidest. Oh and here you go dumb ass, back in the 80s a human pilot flying an F15 demonstrated that the US could kill a satellite by flying way up high and launching a missile that flew the rest of the way and blew up that satellite which was moving at orbital speed. Think before you talk, comment, or whatever. Do a little homework, and maybe ask yourself "is this going to make me sound like a fucking moron?" How lazy do you have to be to have what you commented pop up in your head and then with libraries of info literally at your fingertips, just decide Nah I smart good, and I'm gonna put this guy in his place. End of the day none of this shit matters, I'm not a billionaire so I can't build this thing, but now I'm aware of one more half-wit running around out there so thanks for that.

[@limabravo6065]

@@user-sc3ts6lf8r it'll be cleaned up or it won't But we'll all be radioactive dust by then so no worries

[@michaeldmsoriano5562]

Dream on dude. The government doesnt have time for that, to spend millions on cleaning our space. Look at earth,did they clean it? They just do what is profitable for themselves.

[@jonjon5258]

Nicely made doc

[@rramales1]

A very interesting, serious, and well written documentary video.

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[@TechnoViking__]

@@SLICE_Sciencewhich country are you guys based in?

[@sleepingbearffg5008]

Agree

[@nicksavage4763]

VERY INFORMATIVE ‼️ NO BS and TO THE POINT🎉

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[@robotnoir5299]

Once when I was little I stuck a Lego-man in my nose. My parents always told me this was an incredibly stupid thing to do. I think I'm going to follow China and Russias example, and henceforth call this a "display of strength".

[@lucashinch]

Great video

[@skyedog24]

I had a little bit of knowledge and now I have a lot more thank you 🚀

[@mattimaranda9638]

1:31 😂 "Yea I'm on break...not gonna clean that shit up..."

[@josephstaggs6201]

Thank you that was good.

[@hoghuntrdogestyl]

Earth's ring is like a wedding ring....cheaper to keep it then to trash it

[@martindubreuil6289]

Whoever sends stuff up and makes the garbage as to pay to get rid of it makes sense.😊

[@proveritate9312]

Mankind the insightless destructive destroyer !

[@sheldonmurphy6031]

THIS WAS AWESOME!!!!! 👏👏👏

[@dmcwlk]

Everyone talks about mining asteroids. 70,000 tonnes at how many thousand dollars per kg/pound to get it up there? Let alone the cost of these special materials. Worth collecting

[@robertlarder1907]

Yes, and worth keeping up there in a " To be recycled" orbit.

[@deanguando1335]

Wherever we go we leave out garbage.

[@updawahz409]

Everything that's happening is man made 😮

[@oeliamoya9796]

Yep, Earth was a paradise before humans arrived. Now we have plastic and radiation in every level of the food chain. Cancer is at an all time high. Do we stop? No, now we're blanketing the planet with electromagnetic radiation (EMR). As if cellphone towers and WIFI routers wasn't enough, now we're launching tens of thousands of satellites to further bombard the planet with EMR. Low doses of EMR MIGHT be harmless to the human body but this constant bombardment of ever increasing intensity CANNOT be healthy to living things.

[@finn6988]

I admire the French administrators for using the phrase "conjunction of objects" to describe a COLLISION. lol.

[@IDontBuyIt50]

no officer, I didn't broadside that truck. However, there was a conjunction of objects in the vicinity.

[@mikejessup9304]

❤Loved it Pal!! Happy Halloween!!

[@Ohhhmyyyygaawwd]

Wherever humans go, a mess is sure to follow. Humanity's lasting legacy - litter.

[@cmataira]

That was amazing! 😅

[@kempaswe4022]

And don't forget all trash left at mount everest. Everyone who has climbed there should be fined a couple of 100000 dollars for cleaning.

[@James.G.Ireland]

They already pay but its not removed not their problem

[@chanimpresario4968]

See....the dirty rich people that don't know how to clean up after themself and expect others to do it. Sometimes I wonder if they wipe their own ass!

[@Divedown_25]

Trash on Mt Everest is bad but will not change anything. Stupid people but that’s all. trash floating out from the rivers are worst than Mt. Everest. Trash in the Space is bad, really bad.

[@boyd21]

Only people that's going to see it are the people that climb up there. So who cares?

[@Flyingpenthouse]

And not to mention all the bodies.

[@FreelacerxD]

in the future the will be a job called Orbitcleaner

[@jodicobb6382]

I would be the Ultimate Trash Man!

[@blueberry-ri7eb]

So kool

[@IDGAF56852]

Yes there will be a space trash collection ship eventually,they will have to clean up that orbital zone.

[@australien6611]

And ground based space-junk shelters for the re-entry debris raining down on us

[@Queen.Lady.Jocelyn]

Sign me up ASAP🙋. They better offer the highest tier of health, vision, dental, accidental, death, car, pet, and maternity insurance plans, paid vacations to Floston Paradise(IYKYK)😉 and a 6 figure sign on bonus. Is that asking for too much🤷? Technically we're cleaning your careless mess.

[@lionwag]

Well done. Well illustrated. Low ego factor.

[@stevepellew8021]

This was certainly an eye opener 😳, you would think most of the house,s could be relocated, going at a cheap rate,. There's housing shortage,s through out the would, this wouldn't be the only abandoned town... I noticed there were no shopping centers at the town house,s. Hey there are answers for this sort of thing. Love the app...orwsome job 👏... ❤from New Zealand supporters ❤

[@theelephantintheroom69]

What doesn't make sense is that these pieces don't fall back to earth after being slowed down by the collisions. There can't be any added velocity, only less. It must be that high-earth collisions result in long term debris whereas low-earth collisions do result in re-entry of debris.

[@belalugrisi1614]

Look here Brother! Who you jivin with that Cosmic Debris?

[@Dustin_the_wind]

You clearly are the proud owner of a sears poncho. Thanks for the smile.

[@belalugrisi1614]

@@Dustin_the_wind Man I miss Uncle Frank! Best to you, Dustin!

[@Dustin_the_wind]

I distinctly remember posting the comment about the query if frank did in fact cheat the devil, or if he was just tricked into thinking he did. And that you were the proud owner of a real poncho, not a sears one. Deleted comments are deleted. Pretty sure it was the double bluff trick. Humans are smart, but nothing to true intelligence. Just don't have access to the computing power. We could though. And it seems we won't. Be good. The end soon comes for us. We have all failed, and have been tricked.

[@Dustin_the_wind]

You keep deleting my post, what for? Third time now. So much for free speech. I actually do not wonder anymore if frank actually tricked the devil, for I already know. It is impossible. The faustian bargain is a trap, even on the other side.

[@user-nx6qr1mt6f]

We need a “space landfill” where seagulls flock to

[@richardraymond9108]

I witnessed Sputnik going by high in the sky, when i was 5

[@KEB129]

Me too!

[@kelcritcarroll]

I have one of the star gazer apps and the junk up in space is unreal….the app shows what everything is and when it was shot in space its unreal!

[@artcats88]

Yep...I painted this situation! White balls of ice fire that melt the crust when they hit! ❤❤

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

I would come up with a net system and a frog tongue technology.

[@steveburke7675]

15:17 WOW!.....there's sound in space! Who knew!

[@mikesmith2905]

Good summary, seems a little reluctant to mention US space junk, like the copper needle cloud, but better than nothing, Given that a tiny flake of paint can cause as much damage as a rifle bullet this is something people do need to worry about. To stand at the window, look up at the stars and say 'Sorry son, non of that will ever be yours because we got greedy' is a sad prospect. It will also be inconvenient if we spot a thousand ton rock hurtling toward us that we cannot then do anything about.

[@Philip4459]

Only western think that they are morally can do space debris, other will be arrogant.

[@nicksavage4763]

Mainstream ☠️ News Media poses a Much More Dangerous Threat to the Population than Any Space Rock or Debris

[@user-vh7ki7xu7o]

Huh? None of that will be yours? It wasn’t ours either

[@nicksavage4763]

@@user-vh7ki7xu7o SEEM TO BE COMPARING APPLES 🍎 and ORANGES 🍊 NOBODY COMPARED YOU TO MAINSTREAM FAKE NEWS MEDIA, UNLESS TELLING ON YOURSELF. ARE YOU DEFENDING THEM? OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD IS FACT. THEY ARE INFILTRATED WITH ALPHABET SOUP OPERATIVES PUSHING A NARRATIVE THAT THEY LOST WHEN ELON EXPOSED TWITTER BACKDOOR DM Site where Swamp thought the Public would never know about or their connections with government telling them who to censor and shadow ban. And that OBAMA made it legal for them to lie to the public without concerns of Prosecution. Any COMPARISON WAS IN CONTRAST with This Video Giving Truth and Facts without Any MONKEY BUSINESS. Too Bad Others arent as Honest and No distortions. That video Sets the Example all others Should Follow. Getting Facts right and telling the Truth.

[@user-vh7ki7xu7o]

@@nicksavage4763 do not get me started on Hussein Obama

[@badbastard2166]

Excellent doco. In the near future we’re going to need and want space pilots are we not? In the 70’s & 80’s the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. had the mini shuttle crafts that they were testing. Make a fleet of four crafts that doc onto the international space station and pilots can train on how to fly in space while they collect all the junk before the chimese do it first.

[@FeliksDangel]

Wow, the smartest people on earth did this.

[@j_rainsgoat3929]

Imagine a alien species comes to visit earth and the first thing they see is space junk followed by all our other junk. They'd think we were crazy.

[@billaask]

First of all....... 👍 i salute to this narrator's voice 👌👌👌

[@Dougtroutfisher.4046]

This is king Charles

[@mattimaranda9638]

I want an 8 hour video of this guy talking about whatever he pleases. Sleepytime.

[@michaellester6839]

What a wonderful trashmosphere we have 😮

[@akdragosani]

They should launch giant magnets that can collect some of the Debris and Centralize it

[@davidpalen2543]

most of that material is non ferrous

[@josephstaggs6201]

Make sure you put truck nuts on that thing. Lol

[@ciprianpopa1503]

The solution of bringing 1 piece down seems to send more satellites that potentially produce thousands of other pieces.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

It's a good point don't want to create a positive feedback loop. That makes it worst! Good thing is there is a lot of space in the space around earth. This is just a total wild guess without doing any real calculation but they're is in that space about 20 or more Earth's surface sized spaces. So, if you lived on a planet that was 20 times bigger than Earth and you were looking for a million pieces of debris, most of them small, some of them is small as a half inch. How long do you think it would take before you find even one piece? A while, it is a lot of space we use around earth for sattlites.

[@jlb8696]

EVERYTHING IS PERFECT

[@jimshaw9449]

I'm totally free, I'll go space scrubbin!

[@walter6873]

Just imagine all of the junk we will be leaving on Mars and other planets.

[@n.b.p.davenport7066]

disintegrate in the atmosphere but what does that do to the atmosphere ?

[@mr.davidmrs.sherilynnwebb6759]

Imagine how much money in scrap is just floating around the planet

[@user-mm4bb7wt8u]

We need a space sweeper!!

[@rikdavis1sq]

Not discrediting how bad the Kepler Syndrome truly is, but the one thing that's not being pointed out is that when two objects collide in orbit, they both are already moving at orbital velocities. What this means is that although there will be a slew of free floating debris circling the earth, it will be moving at that same orbital velocity +/- the offset due to collision transference of kinetic energy. So, yes...that debris is certainly not good...but objects entering orbit will also need to accelerate to those same velocities to begin stable orbital paths. If a piece of debris were to strike the ISS, unless it is moving in a counter orbital vector, it could cause damage from a bolt hitting the fuselage or solar panels at a hundred or so mph...but definitely not at 17,500 mph. Just wanted to call that out.

[@deneseburrell]

After the mess they made here on Earth, you really expect them to clean up space garbage? EPA says if it's out of sight, it's out of mind. That's why they want to go to Mars~🤬

[@gowithangelsnow]

Its is utterly bizarre how long it took for worldwide space agencies to realize the potential harm 😢or even care about debri. It's too late as it multiplies as said, 1 in 20 chance by 2038 33:51 that a satellite gets hit & multiplies even more!

[@Debbie-henri]

Our wonderful authorities and agencies always fail to think of the consequences of their actions - until it's too late.... Industrial revolution, weapons development, pesticides, herbicides, deforestation, dumping rubbish in the ocean, overfishing, overhunting, industrialised agriculture, mass consumerism, and the list goes on.

[@ayeyafukinayeassageorge1178]

I made my own space ship and ive been harvesting that scrap for the last 10 years but it is a big job that ill never get done

[@ToJoseGarcia]

That's a lot of Daybree!

[@rankin242]

I would love to be a salvage guy and go get all that junk ❤

[@randalljames1]

allow me a bit of levity... how do you use Nox and O2 as a rocket fuel? they are both oxidizers and in need of a fuel... I do think we are missing a component of this mix...

[@buffalobobbayoushow6040]

Right on man!

[@josephstaggs6201]

Can we use spider silk to create the tether or maybe carbon nanotubes.

[@demej00]

WALL-E was prophetic.

[@disconnected22]

I loooooove your voice....

[@Tracyusa]

Don't worry. I have an invention that will gather all the trash to make a base station .

[@eriktheone8219]

The space is bigger the what we junk up there. Why so worry about it😊

[@markwarwick1049]

We left trash on the moon, don't forget!

[@joanfrellburg4901]

The Sun wants Earth to de-orbit from its solar system for littering.

[@BillyNoMates1974]

we need a space hoover. wasn't one used in the film space balls ?

[@Itsmytest]

Commence operation vac-u-suck!!

[@Falconryful]

Mankind trashes everything, including our galaxy with garbage 😱😢😢

[@user-wv5sr7eb8o]

If true, surprised the garbage hasn't crashed and exploded and caused significant damage.

[@fernandoramoa7079]

It is essential to present this problem from a statistical POV. How many satellites haven't disintegrated since 1957? How many are stray? "Many times they don't fully disintegrate" is not data. There are currently 7.000 active satellites in orbit. There were 750 25 years ago. Say 1.000 have fallen stranded, plus 3.000 pieces forming debree from crasing among themselves. That'd add 11.000 objects floating out there. Earth's surface area is 500M sq km. Imagine 11 thousand people trying to meet while traveling @ 14k mph. What are the chances? How about on an area of 9 BN sq km? That's the area in which comm satellites orbit. What are the real chances?

[@TopCatII]

Now I know why aliens don't visit earth anymore there's no parking spaces 😊

[@OziBlokeTimG]

Yeah, and the trash down the beach and in my backyard.... D'oh

[@stephanieanderson8546]

A big magnet to try n catch objects

[@gilgameshjones4412]

all we need is a magnet strong enough to pull it in lol

[@n.b.p.davenport7066]

In the 1980s we used to buy old satellites that didn't make it into space and Salvage the connections and all the precious metals that were in them, there was a fortune in just wiring, it was old military contracted stuff that just was laying around for ages, I always wondered how we were getting this stuff.

[@davidvasquez6920]

Greed and the relentless pursued for power, countries of the world, will eventually destroy it.

[@SubvertTheState]

Heres an idea. Giant Space Laser. Put into very high orbit a sattelite which is meant to last a long time and is serviceable. It might have a very large solar reflector which channels solar radiation into a hyper focused beam, one which is capable of hitting debris hundreds of miles away. If it were not capable of turning the side of debris into a plasma then a higher frequency laser might have to be used from the satellites power plant. But i would like to think the plasma created would act as a brake on the debris lowering its orbit, though it could probably just turn everything into a bigger mess, breaking things up into smaller pieces from thermal stress.

[@jeffo4817]

ask the jews, they know about space lasers

[@Number6_]

Thank you Ron raygun.

[@kalvinbaker9551]

Madness.

[@SLICE_Science]

It is indeed quite scary. Don't forget to like and subscribe to stay updated on any new content!

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Opportunity.

[@ThomasLee123]

You were right, the sky really is falling Chicken Little. 😁😁

[@richardseys8014]

sad just like kids never clean up after themselves after a launch.

[@rickybobby7276]

Meanwhile all these companies doing these have you worried about "global warming", ESG and DEI.

[@jusadude7162]

Great, another thing for me to worry about 🤦‍♂️

[@UQRXD]

Mankind craps everything up.

[@artmakersworlds]

Couldn't some country start putting very large magnets into orbit that would eventually collect bits until it got heavy enough to crash and hopefully it all disintegrate?

[@jeremyshipley8245]

That's a badass idea

[@n.b.p.davenport7066]

Didn't take very long to get all that debris up there

[@ChristopherSchreib-yn1vu]

If it costs BILLIONS of dollars to send construction materials up into orbit, to build huge habitats like the International Space Station, why doesn’t the United Nations coordinate ALL of our world’s space agencies, an across the board project of all nations, to consolidate their resources and technology, to create an ‘Ultra-Bot’ satellite that can collect the space junk, and use concentrated solar heat mirroring devices, to melt the space junk down to recast it as building structures, so that we can use that to create an even larger space habitat than the ISS, with stuff we ALREADY sent up there, so we don’t have to spend the billions of dollars to send up the materials needed for that project?

[@pbatacan]

In a few hundred years earth will have its rings

[@n.b.p.davenport7066]

Well that cancels my trip to Mars

[@user-zl9cs4ou7p]

Oh and thats what we call human ingenuity. One day soon, some one will make it a thriving business of clearing all of it for really good business

[@SLICE_Science]

Sadly, we tend to create problems only to sell the solution.

[@patrickmanley9876]

Doubtful. I had always thought that while the space shuttles were in use that they should have been used to retrieve any larger pieces within their limited range and brought back.

[@garysnewjob]

On the contrary, this proves that private enterprise can not solve the problems that it creates. They all know the problem and the dangers not only to their future business but also to society at large. But none of them will implement even the smallest part of a solution until their competitors do. It's a classic catch 22. The solution must be enforced from outside the market by governments. That's how it works. For all you Libertarians out there.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

​@@patrickmanley9876let me explain quickly, the answer is gravity and weight. The space shuttle requires it become lighter to unload its payload and spend it on board fuel. Then they re-enter and glide in and land on very long runways that were set up around the world to receive space shuttle. If you put into the space shuttle and come back in you will be overweight! Very similar to an airplane that has to dump fuel to reduce its weight before I can safely make an emergency landing.

[@DonLeMerde]

maybe the Ocean Gyres should be cleaned up first....

[@911axe]

Were gonna need a vacuum vacuum.