RavenChopper t1_ir1fyhf wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:14 PM

Maybe a set of satellites linked together with a steel mesh "net" (kind of like how we clean up the Pacific Ocean).

Four satellites, in a diamond pattern; with a net splayed between them?

Noctudeit t1_ir1i3eq wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:27 PM

Have you seen the damage even small pieces of space debris can do? At those speeds, stuff rips right through steel like it's butter.

RavenChopper t1_ir1ok3b wrote on October 4, 2022 at 6:08 PM

Oh I've seen the pictures of what a speck of paint does to a aluminum block (with a huge crater).

I was just thinking out loud.

Sorry.

shiftycansnipe t1_ir1hb10 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 5:23 PM

Shredded by relative speeds. A net wouldn’t stop something traveling at thousands of feet per second, and if it was going slower, it’s take literal millennia to clean ip