Might not be a bad thing if we can't breach low earth orbit for a few decades. Spoil some billionaire bugout plans and give us a chance to get our shit together before the race to mine everything kicks off.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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This is such good news. Their failure is our gain... I want to snack on some billionares like bubba gump cooks shrimp. Humanity get along, share or perish.
Another Torment Nexus to add to our collection. Neat!
I got it.... space vacums... you are welcome. Saved the world.
If you wanted to launch a sattelite that would trigger Kessler Syndrome, how would you design it, what orbit would it take and where would you activate it?
Not sure about the altitude, but you’d probably want something that explodes into a bunch of shrapnel around other objects. I think the idea would be that the shrapnel starts to take its own orbit, smashing into its own things, destroying and creating even more shrapnel. Like a chain reaction.
Maybe a burst that maintains shrapnel in as high an orbit as possible that will decay slowly, maximizing the opportunity for collisions?
Yeah. It would need to be brittle so that it fragments, probably something that releases a lot of energy on impact. Maybe a quartz structure, if it could survive the temperatures?
I think I Barliman Butterburred it: Start off at as low a trajectory as possible, and shoot the cone upward so the bulk of it reaches high orbit and starts to decay. That'll cross the most pathse. Bonus: Find out what the prevalent direction of sattelites is and try to go opposite to maximize delta v and passes-per-orbit.
If it explodes as an orb, you'll lose most of your material to space or the atmosphere. Probably want a shrapnel cone in line with the orbit, maybe angled a little spaceward so more material gets into higher orbit to eventually decay.
edong and his low orbitz... its raining trash
Can you imagine a datacenter in space.... edong is a k hole crack head. He is such a dum dum