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8169744 No.8169744 [Reply] [Original]

I'm tired of our normie planet

How would someone feasibly create an artificial orbital ring that doesn't periodically demolish cities with craters?

>> No.8169774
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8169774

>>8169744
we already HAVE artificial orbital rings.

>> No.8169778

blow up an asteroid in orbit and hope it doesn't recoalesse.

>> No.8169785

>>8169744
Use lots of tiny particles such as quartz sand. Or dry ice that will sublimate before reaching the ground.

Demolishing cities isn't the biggest problem, destroying satellites in orbit will be a huge problem.

One Rube Goldberg grade solution is to put huge numbers of absolutely gigantic space mirrors in high orbit, above geostationary orbit. It will be a nice view but you will have to say goodbye to night time darkness.

Did you see this video? https://youtu.be/UT2sQ7KIQ-E

>> No.8169794

>>8169744
We would need to launch a shit-ton of random things into orbit.

>> No.8169954

>>8169774
Does that look like a Saturn killer to you?

Norman get out roooooooooo

>>8169785
No I have not, that is the dream, look how beautiful a ring would be

Do we even have enough mass to send sand/glass or dry ice to make a ring that is viewable?

Would the gravity of the moon ruin it?

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8170003

Just set up something to turn an iron rich near Earth asteroid into cable and keep spooling it out until the end makes it round the planet and comes back to you.

For bonus points, get it moving a bit faster than orbital velocity and hang stuff off of it to make yourself a space elevator that doesn't need cables made of carbon nanotubes.

>> No.8170461

>>8169744
We already did:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford

>> No.8170510

>>8169744
Our planet is about as unnormie as it gets, senpai.

>> No.8170563

>>8170510
not really
moderate as fuck

>> No.8170623

I would also like a sub moon and another moon that is close enough that it zooms across the sky from west to east.