llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 19 days agoOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·19 days agoJust push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·19 days ago“Into another environment?”
minus-squareMiles O'Brien@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·19 days agoIt’ll be beyond the environment.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-219 days ago“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoBut it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days ago“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days agoand 20,000 tons of crude oil
minus-squareHeliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoThat’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.
Just push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
“Into another environment?”
It’ll be beyond the environment.
Into another environment?
“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
But it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
and 20,000 tons of crude oil
In space?
That’s not how it works, it would take an insane amount of fuel to get it out of Earth’s gravity well.