[Grapappytek]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Imagine if some country shot a rocket up there loaded with gravel. I bet the Pentagon has a 20 billion dollar project to put carefully designed objects into orbit to cause problems...and I bet the Chinese have a $50 load of gravel that will do the same thing. The Russians probably have something that used to be kinda like the American stuff, but after sitting outside for 20 years now looks more like the Chinese stuff. The Europeans have most likely decided that this would be bad and have passed a policy that bans all countries from using it.

[herawaq]

There's a lot of debris in space. Space reclamation might be a business to pursue.

[kSmica]

Space debris



Our protective shield when the aliens finally decide to invade earth.
Their dropships will just go boom when they approach earth

[KlaraNovikoffa]

[Leaters]

If nessary Space Debree could be cleaned up by Orbital Garbage Scows. The design would be simple block of material designed to absorb impacting particles without itself breaking up. A combination of low density Airo-Gell and high tensile strength plastic such as Tyvec layered many times together would slow down and keep any debree locked inside. The Scow would be manuvered with IonDrive or solar-sails into a colision course with a target object. When its usefull life-span is exausted it simply de-orbits itself or is collected for recycling by space vagrants.

[Pdarasenko]

Let's keep launching crap until we get some nice rings like Saturn.

[numinertyuesk]

I'm more worried about all these damn things: