Comment Space Garbage abatement (Score 1) 267
What a bunch of MO...RONS!
I did a calculation once upon a time when I designed a 300 man space base, lofting the water alone would cost Billions of $ per year, assuming a Space Shuttle model launch cost. Far cheaper to loft energy from ground based mechanisms to combat space clutter. If the space gun aka John Hunter concept was still alive, we could send up ice less expensively in that manner ala Jules Verne. Ground based LASERS are impractical at this stage of their development, which leaves ground based kinetic projectiles as the sole cost effective, short term solution to the problem.