A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)
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#2this is insanely dumb
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#3A satellite that can launch pellets in very specific directions at 8 km/s can also be called an orbital canon.
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#4On slashdot, this would have the tag "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"
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#5A satellite that can launch pellets in very specific directions at 8 km/s can also be called an orbital canon.
Mass Drivers for fun and profit?
All it needs is tungsten ammo.
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#6I'm normally the critic of dangerous satellite stuff (anti-satellite weapons, spy satellites getting dangerously close to each other, etc) but I love this idea. The problem seems well defined, there's lots of eyes on it and the result would be so grand. Meteor showers are so beautiful and having people enjoy them more often is so wonderful.
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#8I wonder if the artificial meteors ionize well enough to enable meteor scatter propagation on VHF/UHF amateur radio like regular meteors do.
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#9I'm normally the critic of dangerous satellite stuff (anti-satellite weapons, spy satellites getting dangerously close to each other, etc) but I love this idea. The problem seems well defined, there's lots of eyes on it and the result would be so grand. Meteor showers are so beautiful and having people enjoy them more often is so wonderful.
Maybe they will be motivated to preserve dark skies then. Maybe.
Re: A plan to make artificial meteor showers (2019)
#10A satellite that can launch pellets in very specific directions at 8 km/s can also be called an orbital canon.
"Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest sob in space"