From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Apr 28 1999 - 23:29:35 MDT
Karsten Bänder wrote:
> ...This now-junk could be recycled to biuld up something new. This junk
> travels around at highspeed, but anyway, a space vehicle orbiting our planet
> would do this, too...
Yes, but the problem is, the space junk is in *different* orbits, each of
which have enormous velocity relative to each other.
> ...All it would need is a sort of "tractor beam" (hey, yet
> *another* Sci-Fi technology) to haul all the junk in...
OK, you invent a tractor beam, Karsten, and I will quit my 9 to 5, and
make my living selling your autographs.
> ...but as most of this junk is magnetic...
Almost none of it is. There may be a *little* iron, but it is mostly aluminum.
> This could be more realistic than the nanosail discussed before.
Or not. spike
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