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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but it’s pretty cool that the orbiting pile of garbage can dodge space debris…

[–] towerful@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, the new Lemmy switcharoo!

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Hold my garbage, I'm going in!

[–] borlax@lemmy.borlax.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the debris is man made that we put up there is my point.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now there’s a bunch more of it was my joke.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only solution? Put more of it up there, of course!

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does space debris have any known natural predators?

[–] Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Atmosphere. Gravity just helps smash them against it.

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Even without an atmosphere, gravity would pull the debris to crash into the planet itself.