glen -
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/05/because-i-am-bored.html
Ranting is an art.
Art AND Sport!
I have to say that Charlie's prescription for Musk's next
tax-write-off and bone to throw to the astronomy community was
stellar (pun recognized but not intended).
I'd want to throw in that the RTGs (Radioisotope Thermoelectric
Generators) might be a good sink for otherwise awkward nuclear
waste. I'm not up on the design of RTGs so maybe there is a
reason that doesn't work and/or the volumes (mass) of RNs that
could be "dumped" into deep space this way is negligible. Of
course, it looks a lot like dumping one's sewage into the river or
NYCs "garbage barges" of yore. I think the ratios are way off to
imagine that the "fuel" itself becomes an ideal source of
reaction-mass?
I'm expecting Musk to send a Cybertruck-styled tow-truck into
orbit to salvage space junk (stunt not unlike
Roadster/Starman). I'm not sure what if any components in
abandoned satellites would be useful to cobble together some of
the systems. I suppose that there is no Maxwell's Daemon game to
be played to harvest some of their kinetic energy short of
"throwing" some into reentry orbits which might be a fair
trade-off... strip the "good stuff" and "hurl" the carcass into
the arroyo (I mean upper atmosphere).
Odd how a neo-Luddite such as myself can get drawn into these
techno-utopian ideas.
- Steve
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