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zippyman55today at 5:15 PM3 repliesview on HN

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.


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tedd4utoday at 5:17 PM

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

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adrianNtoday at 5:22 PM

Kessler‘s farm?

ck2today at 5:20 PM

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)