Wow, this thread took a turn for the worse lol.

There's actually an anime that focuses exactly on this subject, called Planetes. For a show that's essentially about space garbage men, it's surprisingly entertaining, and they stick to real life physics fairly well, such as no sound in space, inertia, and how one little screw traveling really fast can damage a spaceship. In fact, the first scene shows that happening and why their job is so important.

In real life, my guess is they're going to develop a gun that can be used to shoot at space debris in order to lower its orbit and let it burn up in the atmosphere. For bigger stuff they'll probably have to cut it up first, or if it's got valuable stuff on it, then salvage. And like one episode of that anime, there will probably be people who dump hazardous waste onto derelict satellites or large pieces of debris in order to not have to deal with it themselves.

There's not that much space junk. Space is pretty big.

In 500 years technology will be so far advanced it will cost .0001% as much to clean up what junk there is compared to what it would cost now.

 

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Its going to take a big disaster from space junk to get the worlds attention

This is a real problem

 

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"It" being SoBaKi's anus.

 

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it's an awesome anime, and very accurate, well until they start talking about the jupiter mission and that spaceship lol. but everything else is awesome.

 

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