10th March 2006, 3:44 PM
Quote:At any rate, knowing this, I'm surprised you didn't think it was that big a deal that someone was actually going to golf a golfball off the ISS.
Well, for one thing there's already about 100,000 peices of junk over a centimeter wide. Maybe the golfball is the straw that breaks the camel's back, but I doubt it.
Quote:I'm thinking tracking the speed of something like that and matching it's speed if it happens to be in a decaying orbit might be a bit tougher. Perhaps not though?
I don't think their orbit would be decaying rapidly enough to be a problem in recovery and the series takes place in the future, where I imagine that tracking systems would be a lot more advanced.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.