Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> writes:
> > Any ideas?
My favorite is to send up a big sponge (i.e. a ball of soft material)
and let the debris crash into it. Maybe not perfect for the large
chunks (but they are easily tracked) but good for swabbing up the fast
and dangerous small fragments. Problem: space is big.
>
> Many, just not necessarily practical ones.
> a notion at one time of trying to modify the orbit of a piece
> of a comet, to place it into earth orbit, then use this large
> chunk of ice to capture bits of orbitting debris.
... and replacing them with ice fragments, dust and gas. :-)
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