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A comment on The Elusive Peril of Space Junk.

Re:The Elusive Peril of Space Junk by wldcordeiro on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:49PM (#24715159)
The show The Expanse has some interesting scenes involving loose items inside ships as well as junk/ballistics ripping through ships that this reminded me of. Interesting to see that fiction was inspired by the reality.
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Re:The Elusive Peril of Space Junk by lou1306 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @07:47AM (#24718194)
The movie Gravity also starts with a space debris-related catastrophe. At least the concept is gaining traction in popular culture.
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Re:The Elusive Peril of Space Junk by jackric on Thursday October 08, 2020 @10:46AM (#24719536)
It's a shame that only plotty debris is addressed in The Expanse. What about the front of the ship colliding with uncharted rocks at 1800km/s?

Makes me wonder if sane interstellar travel requires a warp drive in order to bend debris around the vehicle. See the speculated UFO propulsion observed in the USS Nimitz incident.

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