meh...you are too late, suckers!

"Kilroy was here."

The problem here, is getting the public to adopt heatsinks on their heads as fashionable.

But then again, I do remember beanie hats with propellers, polyester leisure suits and platform shoes, and disco.....

Nevermind.

It seems to have reached a point where the amount of orbital garbage is causing major (and expensive) problems.
I think that if anyone puts a sat in orbit without dodging capability, they are fools, and potentially contributing to the 'littering' of orbitals.

It's past time to start working on and TESTING solutions to clean up the orbitals before it gets even more out of hand.

Or is this some Earthshade Anti-Warming scheme I missed hearing about?

Maybe the ring could provide resistance to 'storm'/electric attacks?

Have the ring inhibit storm attacks within a radius of the ring?

Those are just off the top of my head.....

Well old-timer, when I attended public school in the 1960's and 1970's, we learned about this literary concept called the metaphor.
Funny thing about that metaphor trick, it wasn't new then, and it's still used today.

Indeed.

Sounds like Electric Viagra!!

Can't beat that with a stick!

And what part of "Big Bang in High Fidelity" did you not understand?

Short answer:
1.yes, pretty much

2. most systems lay on a plane shared with ours (view images of our galaxy from the 'top' and compare with a 'side view'...it is a rotating disc, AKA Spiral Galaxy)

BTW, #2 is why this is so hard, looking out at our galaxy, it's crowded out there!

For an 'On Earth Analogy', it would be like trying to spot a specific, individual tree in the most densely populated forest on earth, from Mars(or thereabouts).

Which god?

Why not purple unicorns?

*Daffy Duck voice*
"You're despicable...." ;-)

I'm still imagining the chaos in the package sorting/routing facility!

All that machinery, and two "Extremely Dangerous Magnets"....hilarity ensues.

Doom!.......Catastrophe!.......End of the World!

Sheesh, back up your data already.
It doesn't matter if it's Google, or Sixpak Joe's Data Shack, or any other cloud service here.
If you aren't backing up your stuff, then it all is at risk, and it's your own fault if you lose stuff...no different from a HDD failure in your PC.

"Pull!" *BOOM*
Maybe it's time to revive the punt gun....;-)

I'm confused by this...
How do you get CLEAN energy by way of any process that involves fracking?
Is CLEAN an acronym for something that excludes hydrocarbons(which are notoriously not clean energy) as an energy source?

The mind boggles........

I see this type of stuff from NK as a face-saving measure, with more focus aimed at their own people.

The fact that the rest of the world pays attention is just icing on the cake.

That won't work unless time flows both ways.