MorningGlory Posted April 4, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1,022 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 39,193 Content Per Day: 6.09 Reputation: 9,977 Days Won: 78 Joined: 10/01/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted April 4, 2018 It's about time. There is too much junk up there and God likes an orderly universe. https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-launched-experimental-space-junk-031056730.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walla299 Posted April 4, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 9 Topic Count: 92 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2,165 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1,727 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/19/2015 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/10/1961 Share Posted April 4, 2018 10 minutes ago, Yowm said: I wonder where they'll put the debris? I guess there are two choices and since they are cleaning space...Go Green-earth bound!! LOL One article I read said the test satellite will test a couple methods, a net and a harpoon-like device. Once the "recovery" is complete, it will deploy a type of sail to produce extra drag and burn it up in the atmosphere much sooner than would normally happen. So, yeah, drag the stuff back planet-side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted April 4, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,682 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,094 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted April 4, 2018 The minds at SpaceX will find many ways to make money including providing cleaning service. They will also have the ability to salvage, harvesting much gold and silver, plus if they return some of the larger components whole they will have a tremendous salvage yard, as well as possess a lot of technology. They also will be able to become a free agent capable of bringing "down" the military satellites of nations. They are going to make a lot of money in the garbage and janitorial business. For they will remove the hazards that can cause death injury from fallig space junk and prevent the liability associated with having put the junk into space in the first place. Next thing ya know the Mafia will be pressuring them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted April 4, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1,022 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 39,193 Content Per Day: 6.09 Reputation: 9,977 Days Won: 78 Joined: 10/01/2006 Status: Offline Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 8 hours ago, Neighbor said: The minds at SpaceX will find many ways to make money including providing cleaning service. They will also have the ability to salvage, harvesting much gold and silver, plus if they return some of the larger components whole they will have a tremendous salvage yard, as well as possess a lot of technology. They also will be able to become a free agent capable of bringing "down" the military satellites of nations. They are going to make a lot of money in the garbage and janitorial business. For they will remove the hazards that can cause death injury from fallig space junk and prevent the liability associated with having put the junk into space in the first place. Next thing ya know the Mafia will be pressuring them. Methinks that is worrying too much! We need this and a similar technology for cleaing the large garbage collections in the oceans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted April 4, 2018 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,682 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,094 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted April 4, 2018 1 hour ago, MorningGlory said: Methinks that is worrying too much! We need this and a similar technology for cleaing the large garbage collections in the oceans. Worry? ??? I marvel at their accomplishments! I'm greatly enthused in seeing their visions of how to be productive and also make money as private exploration entrepreneurs. I grew up eating my breakfast Wheaties while sitting at the family table alongside bits of stinky glues and fabrics from the very beginnings of space exploration and the early recovery system for space craft that my father had been working on all night, night after night way back when we were competing with the Russians for 'control of space". Now as an old geezer I am happy to see, and most interested in the amazing renewal of exploration, and by private interests alone. Worry? No not at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytLiJC Posted April 5, 2018 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 357 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 65 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/21/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted April 5, 2018 On 4/4/2018 at 4:05 AM, MorningGlory said: It's about time. There is too much junk up there and God likes an orderly universe. https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-launched-experimental-space-junk-031056730.html looks like falling on the earth's surface with a lot of junk aboard Blessings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamptlneb Posted April 7, 2018 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 48 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 44 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/26/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted April 7, 2018 Very interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted April 8, 2018 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1,022 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 39,193 Content Per Day: 6.09 Reputation: 9,977 Days Won: 78 Joined: 10/01/2006 Status: Offline Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 On 4/5/2018 at 9:44 AM, ytLiJC said: looks like falling on the earth's surface with a lot of junk aboard Blessings That's not really likely. But, if something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before that junk takes out a spacecraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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