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[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago

North Korea like: if I can't have a space program nobody else can either

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (17 children)

This is false advertising.

Starlink was the first company and product designed to intentionally increase space junk.

Although not needing to provide and internet connection does mean FragSat is a cheaper and more superior product.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Starlink to date has not had any collisions, and it saved me from Comcast.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Pretty sure the joke is aimed at cubesats

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[–] EmoDuck 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just spit balling here but is there any reason we couldn't also make the radioactive?

[–] casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Russian-American de-escalation line transcript from Dec 14th 2024:

Saltzman: Dmitry, care to enlighten me as to why exactly Roscosmos felt the need to launch a Soyuz with nothing but depleted uranium marbles on board?

Rogozin: Scy-eence

Saltzman: OK, and why the second one?

Rogozin: Ree-plecibility

Saltzman: ...

Rogozin: Vhat? I dought you like spacebolls

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

"Just another way we're bringing space down to earth"

^ Fantastic tag line

[–] gravitas_deficiency 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Honestly you could do a ton of damage if you were to just yeet a metric ton or so of sand and gravel into LEO and released it in an exciting fashion

[–] starman2112 15 points 8 months ago

Make sure it's in a retrograde orbit for maximum fuckery

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

sand accelerated on a glitter bomb like spinner so you cover all angles

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course you could, but good luck letting Leo agree to that, he was even squeamish about the anal sex.

[–] SapphironZA 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Imagine a starship load of glitter. The horror!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

That sounds like a good way to find a spaceship full of dead astronauts with very glittery lungs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Or when the sun hits the glitter mass just right: the beauty?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Kessler Syndrome is Bestler Syndrome.

Except for the Space Force, that is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

To be fair, something like this bud scaled up would be the only realistic way to try and fight off a hypothetical extraterrestrial invasion. Once I saw it suggested we could mass-deploy Thunder Wells to fill an orbital window with a cloud of giant steel shrapnel.

A Thunder Well is literally a bore hole with a nuke in it, and a huge steel plate on top. It was done originally as and experiment and they never did find that fucking plate; it might have been vaporized, but that's nothing a little redesign couldn't fix.

Wikipedia article

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Simpsons did it already...

But really look at project Westford created a bit of stink

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard about that before.

[–] nuke 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

HIMARS chonky uncle

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Steel balls touching each other would cold weld themselves into a clump if all touching like that. They're going to need a couple design changes.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not if they’re made on earth and exposed to the atmosphere.

The layer of iron oxide on the outside will prevent cold welding.

Or just coat them all in grease.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

All the vibration from them rubbing against each other as they achieve orbit will rub off the Oxide layer. A light oil would probably do just fine.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

It's not gay if steel balls don't touch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Cold welding is crazy...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Forbidden ball pit

[–] mindbleach 6 points 8 months ago

That logo of a cinder block on the moon is incredible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Hey y'all got any more of them dark ages?

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