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[-] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my favorite part is that humans have created an orbiting pile of garbage.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it’s pretty cool that the orbiting pile of garbage can dodge space debris…

[-] towerful@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Ah, the new Lemmy switcharoo!

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Hold my garbage, I'm going in!

[-] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 5 points 1 year ago

A lot of the debris is man made that we put up there is my point.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Now there’s a bunch more of it was my joke.

[-] chahk@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

The only solution? Put more of it up there, of course!

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Does space debris have any known natural predators?

[-] Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago
[-] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago
[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Atmosphere. Gravity just helps smash them against it.

[-] jcarax@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Even without an atmosphere, gravity would pull the debris to crash into the planet itself.

[-] alcyoneous@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Not content with trashing the surface of Earth, now we have to trash the space around us too!

[-] RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Have we created orbiting poles of garbage, or are WE in fact orbiting piles of garbage?

[-] Cipher@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

The answer to your question is yes

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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