Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for January 11, 2024

Need a bigger Swiffer Picker Upper…

Blow it off with compressed air.

But not the R.U. Sirius!

Moonba?

Dyson would have had the solution. Freeman Dyson, that is.

Nobody cares, and never will!!

You mean there’s no trash pick-up in this galaxy? What kind of galaxy is this?

No problem; Earth’s scientists will just create a mini-black hole and put in in orbit. What could go wrong?

I can almost hear the snare drum.

Space balls had a large vacuum cleaner.

In the TV show “Max Headroom”, in one episode there was an event called Sky Cleansing, when satellites were brought down out of orbit.

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A commercial space station in orbit would start collecting it, both to avoid damage, and for raw material cheaper than that launched from earth. One method might include an electron gun to impart electric charge to targets, and a magnetic field to corral charged targets, and a kevlar net to catch them.

Rimshot – Bada boom

This explains the rings around Saturn! Humans cluttered it so badly thay had to move to earth.

Space junk cleanup is what Elon Musk’s Starship will primarily be used for [as long as the government PAYS him to do it!]

Ha!! Wait til he sees in the planet

got news for you – what goes up must come down, and some of that debris is already starting to come down…we have to clean it up…HAVE TO

Nothing a massive solar flare can’t burn off. Pardon the collateral damage.

We’ll just wait for a strong solar wind to blow them into the neighbors “yard”.

Is somebody looking to buy our galaxy? Magathrea?

The best way to clean here is to dump there.

Then it’s "there"’s problem.

How Do You Clean In The Vacuum of Space? Funny you should ask….

HTTPS://clearspace.TODAY/

The was a TV series starring Andy Griffin, I think it was called Salvage 1, about a company that picked up space junk and reclaimed it.

It’s not so much what you can see from space , it’s what it getting harder to see from Earth .

Starlink satellites are already leaving ugly smears across astromonical observations around the world. NOTHING Starlink can do is now going to make that go away – these are shiny objects and have to orbit low to be practical. The problem will get worse as the Starlink constellation expands and as other competitors get into the business.

That is absolutely Brilliant! Very funny! Great cartoon art as always…

Nature, and dogs, abhor a vacuum.

Tractor beams?

Roger Wilco from Space Quest V will handle this.

(the protagonist in said game, whose ship was in fact a large vacuum cleaner)

There’s a hypothesis that space junk could end space missions. Space junk colliding with other space junk can break up. Although such collisions don’t change the volume of space junk in Earth’s orbit, it increases the number of pieces. In this way, colliding space junk can surround the Earth with small pieces of space junk, making it likely future launches will be damaged by collisions with space junk.