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RE: What Would Be The Environmental Cost Of Sending People To Space To Die?

in #space5 years ago

They'd only be up there for the 12 hours; and completely incinerate on the way down, so wouldn't become junk, themselves.
Space junk they might collide with is up just a bit higher, in stable orbit. If it was low enough to hit them, it'd be low enough to have already fallen.
I realise there are some speed complexities. Things going fast enough can be lower and still in stable orbit; but if the lastronauts are the fastest things that low, there shouldn't be any collisions.

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They'd only be up there for the 12 hours; and completely incinerate on the way down, so wouldn't become junk, themselves.

Ah so this is really a more extreme version of skydiving?

Yeah. I kinda want to tag James Hetfield; since it's the most Metal thought I've ever had.