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C M Edwards

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From: Lake Charles LA USA

Registered: 2002-04-29

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

Global warming can thin the upper atmosphere, slowing orbital decay slightly.

It's a bit of a trade-off.  Satellites last a little longer in LEO, but so does space junk.

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dicktice

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

Registered: 2002-11-01

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

Isn't there ANYTHING that global warming is good for? Does Earth NEED ice covering the poles to provide life viable atmosphere and land masses? How about a discussion of post ice covered polar Earth habitation, once the condition has stabilized (or is that an oxymoron?).

C M Edwards

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From: Lake Charles LA USA

Registered: 2002-04-29

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

Isn't there ANYTHING that global warming is good for?

Yes.  In spite of economically destructive climate shifts and net land loss, growing seasons are likely to be extended and the percentage of the Earth's surface where conditions are suitable for year round agriculture is likely to increase.

Global warming is likely to bring about something that no one has seen since the time of Leif Erickson:  There will be wild grapes in Newfoundland again.

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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

Well here is a plan to reverse that trend first for one that likes to win prizes to now he is giving them away. $25 million climate prize offered by Branson
Scientists must 'put their minds to it today,' he says of removing emissions

British tycoon Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for a way to extract a billion tons or more of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.

The winner will have to come up with a way of removing one billion tons of carbon gases a year from the atmosphere for 10 years with $5 million of the prize being paid at the start and the remaining $20 million at the end.

Virgin Earth Challenge

Also much of the technology is present in the gas extraction plan over on red colony where a review of the MHP slides were examined.

dicktice

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

Isn't there ANYTHING that global warming is good for?

Yes.  In spite of economically destructive climate shifts and net land loss, growing seasons are likely to be extended and the percentage of the Earth's surface where conditions are suitable for year round agriculture is likely to increase.

Global warming is likely to bring about something that no one has seen since the time of Leif Erickson:  There will be wild grapes in Newfoundland again.

Gosh, and the coveted ice wine that we now make hereabouts, in Nova Scotia, might have to produced in giant ice houses to compete with Greenland!

SpaceNut

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

As mentioned elsewhere by maxie:
what would be needed for electrolysis of CO2.
SEPARATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE AND CARBON DIOXIDE FOR MARS ISRU ? CONCEPTS

nickname

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Registered: 2006-05-15

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

Geeesh does global warming even make hair grow more slowly?
It's a fact i read a science paper on this, well looked at it anyway, ok someone else told me about it from a paper he read.
Darn C02 causing hair loss! *lol*

Sorry but had to

How many suckers do the people fleecing money for C02 BS exist?

People really need to educate themselves to the money flow of C02 and not the hype and just straight out lies for money.
All of science has a similar problem, but C02 is the 21st century witch hunt, time to put away the C02 inquisition and think about what you read.

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dicktice

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

I read somewhere, chiripodists' claim the rate our toenails grow is the same as the rate the Atlantic Ocean is spreading. Hair and toenails being the same, when you think about it, chiripodists ware gonna have to think of another comparison if global warming keeps on like it seems to be doing, eh?

nickname

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Re: Global Warming Extends the Orbital Lifetime of Space Junk

dicktice,

Ah verification of it.
We might need to apply for a grant and co write a paper about it, I'm sure it will take many years for a full study of all the aspects of this new scientific principal.
Or until the grant gets near the end, or someone discovers we are really working from a tropical beach.

Who knows what we will find with enough money, maybe duct tape isn't holding the universe together its toenails and hair, increased C02 could unravel the very fabric of space/time and Red Green.

To funny

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Science facts are only as good as knowledge.
Knowledge is only as good as the facts.
New knowledge is only as good as the ones that don't respect the first two.