Getting rid of LEO debris

David Spain wrote:


Those tin foil hat folk better watch out for shorting conductors falling
from space! And never *ever* look up, you could lose an eye that way! :-)

So another issue with trying to use HAARP, how much LEO 'junk' is in polar
orbit vs equatorial orbit? HAARP is not ideally placed to create bulges to
sweep junk from equatorial orbits. You'd probably want to put in a sister
facility, at much lower latitude, maybe at one of our bases in the South
Pacific.

Hmm, come to think about it, given that the HAARP bulge would be located
over Alaska, doesn't that mean the south-to-north sats swept out of orbit
by passing through the bulge come down over Russia? Is that a violation of
some ABM treaty or some such? Not to mention probably secondary effects on
the Ozone layer, thus giving baby seals cancer, or some such means of suing
the Feds for $$$...

Russia launches its polar orbiting recon satellites into orbit in a
northerly direction from Plestek, we launch ours to the south from
Vandenberg.
I was trying to think of something that's electrically conductive that
would be light enough to spend time floating around at very high
altitudes without falling back to Earth in fairly short order, and about
all I can come up with are microscopic carbon fibers.* Those might stay
aloft for quite a while, like volcanic dust does after a major eruption,
but the high altitude winds would soon disperse any cloud of them that
was sent up to that altitude.

* So we use Mookology and make carbon nanotubes that we fill with
hydrogen and then float up into the high atmosphere like tiny strands of
black Ziti pasta.
The tiny organic tubes shall tangle in the sunlit heights and bombarded
by the solar radiation and HAARP radio wave emissions shall soon mutate
and come alive, feeding on the methane produced by all the farting
cattle of our planet, as the mass grows and evolves into something
terrifyingly powerful.
Yes, the _Flying Spaghetti Monster_ will be of our own making! Mankind
shall once again make a god in his...er, his pasta's...own image.

Pat