"What on Earth" happens to all the debris caused from space battles? There must be countless tons of debris emanating from the wreckage of warships, torpedoes, probes, and... who knows what else? What happens to it all? This stuff is dangerous. It is certainly dangerous to our current space station which isn't fortunate enough to be protected by any HV technology. But yet, not everything in the HV is protected either. IINM, Grayson's orbital farms are vulnerable. Yachts, busses, and smaller ships should be vulnerable too. Crew working in space must account for many casualties. And what about pieces that eventually make it inside the local planet's atmosphere? Atmosphere breathers should be downed much too frequently to simply brush aside, pardon the pun.
NASA tracks more than 500,000 pieces of debris.
From the NET...
If there is a greater than a 1 in 100 chance of a known piece of debris colliding with the International Space Station (ISS), the astronauts perform a debris avoidance maneuver in which the ISS’s orbit is raised to avoid collision.
Simply a small bolt traveling at speed can smash a helmet and kill. Some debris may be composed of specialized metals that could survive reentry, certainly long enough to bring down air breathers and wreak havoc on a modern space-bred society. High Rises must be quake and debris proof. Do local weather reports include the chance of raining debris? Debris storms have just become much more dangerous than hail storms. Oyster Bay simply didn't produce the only cracked shells roaming around unchecked.
At any rate, what days are trash collection in space?
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