Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth: Creon Levit
Long Now: Conversations at The Interval
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Space Debris - The Runaway Chain Reaction
Don kesler was the man who essentially invented this field, or started thinking about the problem of space debris. The idea is that if debris collisions produce more debris at a higher rate than it can be naturally removed by humans, then you can end up with just a an impassable cloud around the earth. i went and the nassa johnson space center has a whole debris office with ike dozens of people in it who study this professionally for their whole rears. So what i did was i took this original figure, this original paper by kesler from 78, and i looked in all these reports from the johnson space centre talking about the different events that have happened
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