correlation's no big word. aeronits. now thats a big word, haha.
A E R O N A U T I C S
Kevin, I swear to god I will beat you into submission.
Anyways, we had a project in one of my classes. We got in groups, and we had to come up with a mission or project of any kind really. Me and my group designed a Torus-shaped space station (like a donut) that would rotate to produce artificial gravity for research on longevity in space (long space travel). We had to research development and production costs, etc, where we would get materials.....essentially everthing, it was a ton of work. But this one group had this idea:
Take an old rocket, I think Korea has a few of their own, or maybe some of our old Redstones, I don't know. But they have the capability of sending something into orbital flight, but not the capability of designing and constructing a satellite. So they were going to fill a rocket with gravel. Send that up, and blow it up. Thus making millions of particles sure to be lethal to any US satellite they come across. Haha, the room was silent when they were done proposing it. None of them were asian, haha. But then Jack (our TA) mentioned that there is already TONS of debris up there, and the probability that anything would hit a satellite is VERY small. Almost negligable, thats why you've never heard of a satellite being taken out by a grain of sand (yes, a grain of sand would destroy a satellite). This gravel really wouldn't increase this probability....
...But it is an extremely funny idea.
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