[zippyman55]

I’m seeking funding to open up a rail gun ranch where you can sit in your lawn chair and blow satellites out of the sky.

[pfdietz]

Lasers would probably be more practical. Maybe a whole array of lasers w. telescopes? At (say) 500 km, a 20 cm aperture would have a spot size of maybe 50 cm. So let's take that telescope array, hook a kW laser to each one, and roast some LEO satellites?

(Note: this is not an actual suggestion this be done.)

[zippyman55]

I know you are joking on this one, as I was on mine. But with people being arrested for shining pet toy lasers at objects, best everyone stay clear of this one.

[ninjalanternshk]

I’m working on a DaaS startup (drone as a service) so maybe I’ll locate next to you and your customers can blow drones out of the sky and mine will keep having to replace theirs.

[zippyman55]

I like where you are going with this. Can you offer “hardened” drones for the advanced players?

[tedd4u]

Probably legal in Texas? If it's directly over "your land?"

[dylan604]

If your application says it is meant to hunt feral hogs, then they will allow it.

[zippyman55]

This may be a good plan B pivot! Join now and get a free lawn chair!

[throwup238]

Feral hogs IN SPAAAAACE!

[adrianN]

Kessler‘s farm?

[ck2]

I'm thinking of "space roombas" that glide around and bump all the sats in LEO into the atmosphere like a game of pool

Only problem is they are toxic as they burn up and create a lot of pollution

* https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellit...

(too bad gravity is impossible to overcome cheaply or do the opposite and yeet into sun)

[dredmorbius]

If you have to yeet space trash to a gravitational well, Jupiter is probably the more attractive option. Lower delta-V, still a large well, and so long as you get reasonably close, orbital decay should solve the problem eventually.

For de-orbiting LEO satellites, electrodynamic tethers is probably the most viable active method:

"Study on electrodynamic tether system for space debris removal"

<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00945...>