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Commented on The sky's gone dark
One side effect of a Kessler event would be an increase in shooting stars on display. Socially, having such a display every night makes the annual meteor showers less of a special thing, and making a light-streaked sky the norm...
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Unholyguy commented on
The sky's gone dark
God I hate autocorrect...
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Andreas Vox commented on
The sky's gone dark
If there was a god s/he'd kill autocorrrect....
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Andreas Vox commented on
The sky's gone dark
Maybe better not use foam like this. I don't think there's currently any known material that can absorb high speed particles without disintegrating itself. Maybe a wad of Kevlar....
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Heteromeles commented on
The sky's gone dark
You've got to look up Whipple shields. Also the Stardust mission, which did use aerogel to capture grains coming off a comet. It's counterintuitive, but if a speeding speck of debris is likely to become a ball of plasma when it hits anything, then putting just a wisp of matter in its path can be better than putting a heavy sheet of matter. You get the same ball of plasma either way, but you don't get the structural disruption in something that doesn't have much structure to disrupt, like an aerogel or a Whipple shield) (vs. say battleship armor), nor...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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Except skylon IS getting a drip-feed of guvmint money - as we saw at LonCon last year .......
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