Best way to remove junk from low Earth orbit

on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:11:45 GMT, Rand Simberg
sez:

` Of course, I guess one of the most reliable ways to learn something on
` Usenet is to post nonsense.

An odd but highly reproducible truth. Post a question and many groups
will ignore you, they can't be bothered to undertake the work of
getting someone up to speed, particularly if the question reveals
woeful degrees of ignorance. Rephrase your enquiry as a firm assertion
of a confused version of how something works, and five regulars
will immediately jump in to correct you in great detail, answering
your unasked question better than you could have hoped. The only
price for this beneficence is that you must start out "looking like
an idiot in front of thousands of people". Often, however, this
is the only way of getting an answer in some places. Thankfully
not so much in the sci.space hierarchy.


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Pete Vincent
Disclaimer: all I know I learned from reading Usenet.

Eric Chomko wrote:
Crioes, I'll take your word for it. If direction was left out then it is
in fact wrong (false).

: For what it's worth, the word "direction" never appears
: in that post.

Fine, I stand corrected.

Now was that so hard? You should do that more often.
Everyone should. I know I should. See, now you don't
have to debate about it anymore and you can talk about
something of substance.

Rand Simberg wrote in message link.net...
Eric Chomko wrote:

: Huh, and all the EOS satellies are in polar orbit.

: No, they're not. They are sun synchronous for the most part.

Okay, which ones?

All of them, as far as I know, except for the ones that are
geosynchronous. I'm not aware of any that are polar (though there may
be some).

IIRC, the Transits used 90 deg orbits, but then they were not EOS satellites.

(pete) wrote
on Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:11:45 GMT, Rand Simberg
sez:

` Of course, I guess one of the most reliable ways to learn something on
` Usenet is to post nonsense.

An odd but highly reproducible truth...

It is, in fact, a standard "elicitation" technique used by spies,
investigators and other snoopy types. A great many people just
cannot keep their mouths shut when they have a chance to show
off their superior knowledge.