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bacon_boat t1_jd26bag wrote

Reply to comment by Joates87 in Student built satellite launched by SpaceX and powered by 48 AA batteries and a $20 microprocessor shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk by DukeOfGeek

Yeah, when I clean my kitchen I'm not "reducing" the amount of waste.

I'm just decreasing the lifetime of the junk in my kitchen.

The consequence that reducing junk lifetime reduces the amount of junk is just incidental and can be ignored.

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Joates87 t1_jd2sx2j wrote

Bad analogy but its okay.

More like making a rube Goldberg machine in your kitchen in which everything slowly makes its way towards the trashcan.

So somehow making this rube Goldberg machine you would argue actually reduces clutter in your kitchen. Yeah. Okay bud.

Edit: tell your SO you are going to "reduce" the number of dishes in the sink by throwing biodegradable cutlery in the sink... see how that works lol

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