Thanks!! And nice, I keep forgetting to sub to Real Engineering. I've stumbled onto his channel like 5 or 6 times now

If you don't know them already a few other favorites of mine are Smarter Every Day, Practical Engineering, and Kyle Hill

Man, one single post scratching every itch in my brain - nerdy generalist, mat sci engineer, and gamer. I do love Reddit

I'm guessing, depending on details, that ballistic shielding is generally designed to not cause further debris and sort of optimized for toughness? Assuming it doesn't impact the base protection and functionality of protection

And now I'm super curious about debris fields and tracking, I knew we did some amounts, may have to go on a nerd rabbit hole

It is good to hear we're doing a decent amount of 25 year self termination plans. I vaguely remember there being something of a "graveyard orbit" do you know if those are those deeper orbits, or do we try to make those also into one's that'll self-deorbit?

There's a niche of Kerbal players that love shooting for hyper realism. I'm more on the end of let's see what the existing engine can do and engineer something that functions on wonky mechanics and not so much real life. Like mass driver designs that are just... broken

And any resources to recommend from real life aerospace physics that'd improve my Kerbal skills? I'd love to improve my gravity slingshot game

Curious to pick a proper engineers brain as my main experience is just the game Kerbal Space Program

We'd have to deorbit existing junk, and maybe somehow figure out a way to eliminate the tiny junk? All the paint chips and screws and wrenches and things?

And I'm guessing most of the junk is also in the most commonly used orbits? All farirly equatorial (right term?) stuff in Low Earth Orbit?

All my knowledge of why everything's near the equator is from having to recheck my dV when I take a regual rocket setup and try to use it for a polar orbit, especially when I made my design as lean as possible

Came looking for this comment, great hard sci-fi show

Mr Beast version of the anime Planetes?

The main characters work as space junkers. Literally salvaging or deorbiting junk because they're basically on the precipice of Kesler Syndrome

Looks like the other big thing was giving it by IV so they could get to concentrations that would normally capped by the body's regulation mechanisms?

2 or 3 comments up another Redditor breaks down the difference

In theory, probably?

It's a question of what's more practical to implement both in terms of energy and material resources to try and synthesize fuels from existing atmospheric gasses compared to electric vehicles and other routes

For some niche or remote applications, ICE engines will likely always exist just because hauling fuel to some locations will always be easier than electrifying

Finding alternative solutions for cars can't be the.only choice though. Like good investment into public transportation (trains, busses, etc.) can do as much if not more than any engine technology to reduce individuals impact

Basically.

Our general tactics of dealing with waste as it gets worse can be summed up as:

Landfill

Seal it up, then Landfill

Mix it with concrete, Seal that up, Landfill

I think the real victims will be teenagers

Because that's dad joke territory, and dads are the type to use the crap out of this

Think of all the sighs and eye rolls

I think, or at least hope, that the idea is to use "eye contact" to help communicate things to pedestrians and other drivers, since that is something lots of people do now when both parties are human.

It's something to consider with self driving cars. There's lots of non verbal queues you can get with a person behind the wheel that we need to think about. It's probably going to be some combination of new rules and communication tools for the vehicles.