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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by Maursault on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:56PM (#32860120)
There is a 3rd method already being implemented,[1] though it is enhanced by your second method. If no more satellites were put in orbit, eventually there would be no satellites (or space junk) in orbit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_decay

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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by Rebelgecko on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:04AM (#32862322)
Unfortunately I don't think it's practical to wait thousands-millions of years for everything to decay
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Re:Senators introduce bill to thin out the 900k pieces of or... by Maursault on Friday September 16, 2022 @09:09PM (#32873900)
How about 150 years? Because due to orbital decay, that is about how long it would take for everything to fall out of orbit. If there is a Kessler Syndrome, depending on its effect at higher orbits, it might take a few hundred more years, but definitely definitely not billions of years.
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