llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 7 months agoOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkOcean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Stationspacenews.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·7 months agoJust push it out of orbit and it’ll float away.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 months ago“Into another environment?”
minus-squareMiles O'Brien@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoIt’ll be beyond the environment.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-27 months ago“No, no, it’ll be boosted beyond the environment. It’ll not be in the environment.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoBut it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago“There is nothing out there… all there is … is empty space …and vacuum …and sunlight.”
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoand 20,000 tons of crude oil
minus-squareHeliumfart@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months 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.