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pavel_lishin on Aug 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Space isn't ours.

Pollution will eventually be a problem in any given orbit, which is a shame, because orbits tend to happen around interesting places we want to go.

sammyo on Aug 6, 2012 [–]

Once we have a society that lives, works and builds in orbit there will likely be active recycling.

_wwz4 on Aug 6, 2012 | [–]

Or really powerful lasers for vaporizing debris in orbit. :)

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