[IP] Re: Wi Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves Facts Out of the Airlock

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: David Byrden [farber1@byrden.com]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 3:43 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  Wi Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves Facts Out of the Airlock

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> >> From: DV Henkel-Wallace [gumby@henkel-wallace.org]
 >> in the exploding-stationary case stuff exploding in directions
 >> other than axially will  shift around and take millennia to clear up.

Er, there's no such thing as a stationary case. If you put something
stationary in space above Earth it will, not surprisingly, fall down.
You have to orbit things, extremely fast, to keep them up there. And
that is the problem.

Try a Web search for "space junk" to see how expensive and insoluble
this problem is, even today.

David


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