Check out the anime Planetes!
In reality the job for this will just be satellite operators, which we already have!
VegaLyrae
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Agreed, I also have concerns about shooting an electron beam, the accumulated charge on the tow vehicle is going to build up over time.
If the plan is to just grab a single client spacecraft, and tow it then this is basically already in progress. We will see this happen when NASA launches OSAM.
Seems like an arm that can clamp to the marman ring costs a lot less, and can be ready now.
To go full sci-fi, though, lasers are likely a good tool for smaller debris. High power lasers can ablate the prograde side of small debris, using the gassified solids to push the debris into a lower orbit until the atmosphere can take over.
In very similar technology, I would suggest reading about electrodynamic tethers, where instead of shooting electrons at ships, you can use a long wire to claw your way through earth's magnetic field.
They couldn't find this man's gun, but they confiscated my Leatherman when my bags got bumped from checked to carry-on.
He discovered the weapon during the flight between San Francisco and Hong Kong, it said.
So he made it passed TSA with an entire firearm.
Not just that, but he doesn't keep track of where his firearms are.
For an honest mistake, so much had to go wrong.
Open source does not mean open license.
If you cannot trust yourself, then do not provide yourself temptation
It is 5 minutes of work to use your source control tool, and have a read only view for other people.
Being open source doesn't mean you have to accept PRs or pay for audits. It just means your source is... Open...
There's nothing disingenuous about that? Did we read the same things?
Being closed source doesn't fix any of the issues they noted.
I'd rather they just say "I'm ashamed of my code".
I just commented this elsewhere, but I personally feel that their reasons for being closed source are worse than actually just being closed source.
I wasn't worried about it being proprietary until I saw the founder reasoning for not having the source be open under a nonpermissive licence.
https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidian-open-source/
I decided to go with logseq because of it.
It also syncs with all my devices using my own servers, instead of needing to trust obsidian/logseq.
They say their tool is cost effective as it can be used for a long time, so who knows.