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Old 07-19-2018, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
Hmm, putting even MORE shrapnel into orbit sounds like a wonderful idea.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh don't worry, there's soooo much space in space, there's plenty of room!
And anyway, it'll all fall back to Earth after about two years.

Or so they thought...
Apparently there's still clumps of copper wire floating around up there from their initial tests.
To be a little fair, it was conceived of and deployed in the 1950s, before they had developed any satellites and realized the problems of tiny objects smacking into delicate machines in orbit.

But still, what could possibly go wrong?
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