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[SleepingBull]

Ocean particles don't quite hit at the same speed. LEO can be swamped easily.

LEO can be swamped with small particles so easily it has likely been so dozens, hundreds, or thousands, of times over the past 4 billion years from various fluke events. You'll notice, however, that the earth does not have rings like the outer planets.

There are a bunch of really small forces involved. The sorts of things any engineer would casually round to 0 for normal everyday things. However, said forces do exist and do matter when dealing with really small things or large timescales.

Simply put, Kessler syndrome isn't stable this close to the sun. Not even close to stable. LEO would be clear and clean in about a decade and a half.

 

[Hatewerfer]

Xi clearly saw the thread and saw some gweilo talking shit

That wire catch system is neat, simple and looks like it saves a lot of weight in landing legs. That burn coming down looked far too slow for efficiency, but it did work. Catch it first, make it efficient later I guess is the name of the game, and a slow descent gives you time to push the button and blow the thing up before it smashes your cool new system if it all goes wrong.