{"id":484,"date":"2007-01-09T01:52:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T06:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2007-01-09T01:52:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T06:52:41","slug":"space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Space Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Boake, in this <a href=\"http:\/\/spacelf8r.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/space-debris.html\">blog entry<\/a>, discusses Space Debris.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the video he&#8217;s posted here before\u00a0&#8211; it really is rather alarming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written before that I think the idea of moving the\u00a0Space Elevator out of the way of &#8220;Space Debris&#8221; or active satellites or whatever is the wrong way to go.\u00a0 Put a big laser on the station(s) and just zap the\u00a0offending items\u00a0out of existence.\u00a0 And, for those few items in orbit which are a) still active and b) get in the way, offer a free launch of a new satellite to replace the old one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Boake, in this blog entry, discusses Space Debris.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the video he&#8217;s posted here before\u00a0&#8211; it really is rather alarming. I&#8217;ve written before that I think the idea of moving the\u00a0Space Elevator out of the way of &#8220;Space Debris&#8221; or active satellites or whatever is the wrong way to go.\u00a0 Put a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}