Education School Homework, need opinions

A gravity tractor would need far too long to have any effect on the bits of debris, not to mention the unbelievable cost of putting a big, heavy spacecraft up there.

 

send Wall.E Problem solved.

Missiles would only make the mess smaller and spead out across a larger area. For example, if a man gets hit by a missile, each part in general is smaller, however, one leg will be over one half of the field and his arm in another field altogether.

You could;

Increase the Earth's rotation to increase the gravity pull burning it all up in the atmosphere
Con: Shorter days, we have to use Star Dates, like 2356.5.

Turn Virgin Galactic as a garbage disposal service instead of sending wannabe astronauts.

 

After doing some quick research, ive come to the conclusion that a gravity tractor isnt very viable because the mass required would be quite large, meaning this will cost Billions, similar to my third proposal.

Edit: ninjaed by krikkit

interesting idea, i sincerely think it is a viable solution and i will be contacting you soon to ask for further details

I think that increasing the earth's rotation isnt very easy.

 

I think that increasing the earth's rotation isnt very easy.

Those were my rational thoughts,

You could;

Move the earth to some uncluttered space,

Or stop sending **** up there that doesn't bloody work. Bet most of the crap up there was made by emachines or acer.

 

OMFG, THATS AN EVEN BETTER IDEA THAN THE WALLIE ONE!!!!!!!!!!! IM CONTACTING NASA IMMEDIATELY!

Well, most of them arent used by or made by emachines or acer :S

 

heh

That makes me think of Dark Helmet's ship.

 

How does that work, exactly? I've missed something.

 

How about a large magnet on the orbiter?
You push the orbiter into the particular orbit you want and then leave it there for a while. Hopefully there will be enough control on the orbiter to make it orbit slower or faster than the particuar exploded satellite parts so they can make contact. Gradually some of the space junk will be attracted to the orbiter and then you simply take it down and burn lots of the junk during re-entry.

Not sure what you would do if you accidentally pulled in something powered by RTG's or one of those Russian Comsats with actual Nuclear reactors on board.....

 

One problem. There aren't any orbiters anymore. The space shuttle is due to be decommisioned and the Russian Soyuz is innaproapriate for such a task. This would have to be combined with my third proposal.

 

My suggestion: Ninjas in sapce suits... they can chop up the debris into small cubes and then use Pterodactyls to push them into the earth's athmosphere. That way they'd burn.

 

ALL HAIL MEGAMAID!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

 

Why not cause the sun to explode?

That would surely cause all of the Debris to be instantly vaporized?

 

That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage.

 

Would it be feasible to negatively charge the earth and all the debris? Then with some luck, all the debris would be repelled

Failing that, you could try and increase the moon's mass so that it's gravitational field is marginally stronger than the earth's. And again the debris would just float away.

So if we use g=GM/r^2
Then M=(g(r^2))/G
So when g=200 (making it stronger than Earth's gravity), G=6.67300×10^-11 and r=1 737400
Then M=(200(1737400^2))/6.67300x10^-11=whatever that equals, no calculator at the moment lol

I'm sure that if you dump enough heavy stuff on the moon this idea would totally work lol

 

*sighs*

this is srs business people *insert i loled, then i srsed face here*. So basically, i think the aerogel idea is the best idea currently. It seems more viable than the other ideas currently.

*Facepalm*

I think this idea will work. At the same time, i will donate my money, my passport, my family and maybe even my country to you.

Because that sure is viable. Try to keep on a budget here people around the millions. You would have to justify immensely if it was in the billions.



Stage 1 activated: Depression

 

Most spacecraft are made from materials aren't particularly magnetic. Lightness is key, so think Aluminium, Beryllium etc.

 

If all of the space waste came from Earth originally, surely the correct question is not how can it be disposed of, but instead how can it be collected and bought back to Earth?
Build a big ass space ship with a big net, like a beam trawler in space, then go "space waste fishing" the real question is how to get it back Earth to be recycled, I'm guessing, that "bring it in through the hole in the ozone layer, so it doesn't melt" is not the answer here?

 

Dyson, fitted with the new space ball...sorted

 

One thing to consider if you're planning on using the atmosphere to burn up orbital debris: a lot of debris does not entirely burn up upon re-entry, and you'll have to ensure that the satellite you just pushed into the atmosphere doesn't end up in someone's living room.

Right now we use a several-pronged approach to managing orbital debris. The first part is designing satellites and rockets better so that they don't leave as much stuff floating around in near Earth orbit. The second part is designing satellites such that all the sensitive bits are protected by tougher elements, such as micro-meteoroid object debris shielding or truss segments. The third part involves tracking every piece of debris that is bigger than an inch or so. Most of the smaller stuff, while damaging, is manageable with proper shielding. The bigger chunks will cause a bad day, and that's where the fourth part comes in. Debris avoidance maneuvers allow us to alter orbits slightly to avoid the big stuff.

It's more of a defensive approach than actively trying to reduce the amount of debris, but it is one option. If you take the active approach and want things to burn up in the atmosphere, you'll also need to take into account the materials of which the satellites are made. Different materials burn up at different altitudes depending on the speed at which they de-orbited.