So climate change is about to be solved.
Kessler Syndrome
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#32Oh wow, is that where the term "Kessler Run" comes from in Star Wars?
If I recall, the Kessler run involved having to go through an asteroid field in the recent Solo movie.
For fans, you may recall that in the original Star Wars Han says: "You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessler Run in less than twelve parsecs."
This got ridiculed because parsec is a unit of distance not time, but in the new movie they show that the run can be made longer or shorter.
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#33Oh wow, is that where the term "Kessler Run" comes from in Star Wars? If I recall, the Kessler run involved having to go through an asteroid field in the recent Solo movie. For fans, you may recall that in the original Star Wars Han says: "You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessler Run in less than twelve parsecs." This got ridiculed because parsec is a unit of distance not time,…
Nah, that was called the Kessel run, and the parsec thing was an actual mistake that they retconned in Solo.
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#34Oh wow, is that where the term "Kessler Run" comes from in Star Wars? If I recall, the Kessler run involved having to go through an asteroid field in the recent Solo movie. For fans, you may recall that in the original Star Wars Han says: "You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessler Run in less than twelve parsecs." This got ridiculed because parsec is a unit of distance not time,…
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#35Oh wow, is that where the term "Kessler Run" comes from in Star Wars? If I recall, the Kessler run involved having to go through an asteroid field in the recent Solo movie. For fans, you may recall that in the original Star Wars Han says: "You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessler Run in less than twelve parsecs." This got ridiculed because parsec is a unit of distance not time,…
Nah, that was called the Kessel run, and the parsec thing was an actual mistake that they retconned in Solo.
Oh, Kessel run!
I know they retconned it. Now they need to retcon the name so that it is really Kessl run, short for Kessler.
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#36There's no incentive to me to make my satellite safely de-orbit before it gets broken into pieces. So why would I bother? That's expensive. But like all 'easy to litter, hard to clean up' problems of this nature, we have a solution already: require a cleanup deposit ahead of time that will be returned to whoever cleans it up. All space-launching countries should sign an accord that said something along the lines of "…
can we do carbon first?
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#37Kessler syndrome is why it was so irresponsible of the Chinese to blow up a satellite just to prove that they could. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
The USA did the same in 1985 [1] and 2008 [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solwind [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost
The second satellite was about to reenter and so didn’t produce orbital debris.
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#38Humanity's always had a problem with it's trash.
Something I suppose we assume "space people" can deal with.
My suggestion: a space catapult (using a spring, not a weight).
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#39There's a pretty great manga series (and an anime adaptation, though it's not as good) called 'Planetes', that takes a pretty heavy focus on Kessler Syndrome and humanity's attempts to grapple with it in the near-future. Worth a read, if anyone's interested.
Great show.
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#40If a satellite is in a very low orbit then any debris fall to earth quickly. Almost all cubesats have a orbital life of six to five years. The space station, in a normal low earth orbit, would hit the earth in around three years without reboosts. The higher you go, the more absolute volume there is, the slower the satellites there travel and the fewer satellites there are. So that leaves a band of mid-upper LEO satel…
I see so many people around the Internet who smugly explain to their comments section of choice what Kessler Syndrome is, and link the Wikipedia page for it, and almost none of them actually know what they're talking about.
Whenever I bring up the density of debris in a given orbit, or the drag characteristics of the debris, they get mad. Everyone should read your comment and realize that it's possible to know a lot more about this than the Wikipedia article tells you, and accept that they are not a special enlightened environmentalist.
Kessler Syndrome is not a serious risk for Earth. It would be expensive and difficult to cause a long-lasting debris field that made space launches impossible on purpose. And we're trying to avoid it. Every organization with access to space is taking steps to mitigate space junk, including CNSA.