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wolfy42 posted...

Space junk could actually be used to help us expand if we ever set up a real space station that orbits the earth. All that junk is just material you don't need to send up into orbit to use, although collecting it is going to require some resources/time.

It would be better to just send material up. The space junk can be used for patch work. But you should use it to build anything. But the problem is that the space junk will eventually get in the way or us getting into space in the first place. That's the problem. Space junk makes it dangerous for us to send anything or anyone up there in the first place. Getting the junk also isn't easy. Satellites travel at about 17,000 miles per hour. So catching it can be difficult. I watched a video about space junk. And they mentioned that scietist were working on a way to get rid of it. A net, a harpoon on a tether, magnets, and lasers are some of the working theories...