A commercial space station in orbit would start collecting it, both to avoid damage, and for raw material cheaper than that launched from earth. One method might include an electron gun to impart electric charge to targets, and a magnetic field to corral charged targets, and a kevlar net to catch them.
It’s not so much what you can see from space , it’s what it getting harder to see from Earth .
Starlink satellites are already leaving ugly smears across astromonical observations around the world. NOTHING Starlink can do is now going to make that go away – these are shiny objects and have to orbit low to be practical. The problem will get worse as the Starlink constellation expands and as other competitors get into the business.
There’s a hypothesis that space junk could end space missions. Space junk colliding with other space junk can break up. Although such collisions don’t change the volume of space junk in Earth’s orbit, it increases the number of pieces. In this way, colliding space junk can surround the Earth with small pieces of space junk, making it likely future launches will be damaged by collisions with space junk.
old_geek 4 months ago
Need a bigger Swiffer Picker Upper…
GreasyOldTam 4 months ago
Blow it off with compressed air.
Bilan 4 months ago
But not the R.U. Sirius!
Ratkin 4 months ago
Moonba?
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 4 months ago
Dyson would have had the solution. Freeman Dyson, that is.
STEPUP 4 months ago
Nobody cares, and never will!!
Imagine 4 months ago
You mean there’s no trash pick-up in this galaxy? What kind of galaxy is this?
phritzg Premium Member 4 months ago
No problem; Earth’s scientists will just create a mini-black hole and put in in orbit. What could go wrong?
jahays1 4 months ago
I can almost hear the snare drum.
dwindy54 4 months ago
Space balls had a large vacuum cleaner.
Dkram 4 months ago
In the TV show “Max Headroom”, in one episode there was an event called Sky Cleansing, when satellites were brought down out of orbit.
\\//_
Frer Squirrel 4 months ago
A commercial space station in orbit would start collecting it, both to avoid damage, and for raw material cheaper than that launched from earth. One method might include an electron gun to impart electric charge to targets, and a magnetic field to corral charged targets, and a kevlar net to catch them.
Slowly, he turned... 4 months ago
Rimshot – Bada boom
royq27 4 months ago
This explains the rings around Saturn! Humans cluttered it so badly thay had to move to earth.
David P. McLaughlin 4 months ago
Space junk cleanup is what Elon Musk’s Starship will primarily be used for [as long as the government PAYS him to do it!]
geese28 4 months ago
Ha!! Wait til he sees in the planet
oakie817 4 months ago
got news for you – what goes up must come down, and some of that debris is already starting to come down…we have to clean it up…HAVE TO
Mike Baldwin creator 4 months ago
Nothing a massive solar flare can’t burn off. Pardon the collateral damage.
mokspr Premium Member 4 months ago
We’ll just wait for a strong solar wind to blow them into the neighbors “yard”.
Bilan 4 months ago
Is somebody looking to buy our galaxy? Magathrea?
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault 4 months ago
The best way to clean here is to dump there.
Then it’s "there"’s problem.
jsimpso1 4 months ago
How Do You Clean In The Vacuum of Space? Funny you should ask….
HTTPS://clearspace.TODAY/
cuzinron47 4 months ago
The was a TV series starring Andy Griffin, I think it was called Salvage 1, about a company that picked up space junk and reclaimed it.
mistercatworks 4 months ago
It’s not so much what you can see from space , it’s what it getting harder to see from Earth .
Starlink satellites are already leaving ugly smears across astromonical observations around the world. NOTHING Starlink can do is now going to make that go away – these are shiny objects and have to orbit low to be practical. The problem will get worse as the Starlink constellation expands and as other competitors get into the business.
T... 4 months ago
That is absolutely Brilliant! Very funny! Great cartoon art as always…
Draway 4 months ago
Nature, and dogs, abhor a vacuum.
norphos 4 months ago
Tractor beams?
FreihEitner Premium Member 4 months ago
Roger Wilco from Space Quest V will handle this.
(the protagonist in said game, whose ship was in fact a large vacuum cleaner)
Jogger2 4 months ago
There’s a hypothesis that space junk could end space missions. Space junk colliding with other space junk can break up. Although such collisions don’t change the volume of space junk in Earth’s orbit, it increases the number of pieces. In this way, colliding space junk can surround the Earth with small pieces of space junk, making it likely future launches will be damaged by collisions with space junk.