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[lajoswinkler]

There's a maximum debris number option in the settings. Crack it to the minimum, enter the game, exit the game. Later you can return it to the previous value - the debris will not return.

[benjiful9000]

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[Superfluous J]

First things first. This:

flinging tornadoes at it

sounds awesome.

Okay now to business. You have 4 options that I can see:

1) Turn debris down. This is a far better option than you think. You're not talking about hours of work, here. You're talking DAYS.

2) Delete the trash manually in the Tracking Station. Same as #1, essentially, just takes longer. Though it won't take you the DAYS the below 2 options will...

3) Install KAS (Yes, it's a mod but it's a good if buggy one), send a ship up there and rendezvous with each piece. Attach something (a pipe or winch cable) to that piece, slow down the orbit so it'll crash into Kerbin, then detach and fly away to the next piece.

4) Do #2, but without KAS. This means no attaching anything so you'll need some kind of bucket. Maneuver your ship to the prograde side of your objects, get them in the bucket, and then fire retrograde to slow them down as in #2 above.

Trust me, though, do either of those last options a couple times and you'll be hopping to one of the first two posthaste.

Edited November 24, 2013 by 5thHorseman
Added a 4th option as #2

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[Superfluous J]

Why thank you. This...

...is how you do it.

Actually, while torpedoes are an awesome concept, the concept I was talking about was using TORNADOES to take out space trash

[Skorpychan]

Maybe a big bucket inserted into a retrograde orbit to catch things, and just moved around to intercept various orbits of bits of debris. When it's done, just deorbit the lot.

[benjiful9000]

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[KvickFlygarn87]

Hooray, Kessler bucket!

[Mr Tegu]

if you add a rocket to the back of the bucket you'll be able to fire the debris down at the planet when you need to empty it.

[FellipeC]

Maybe a big bucket inserted into a retrograde orbit to catch things, and just moved around to intercept various orbits of bits of debris. When it's done, just deorbit the lot.

The speed of impact of a thing in retrograde orbit will generate even more debris! You need to rendezvous the bucket with the debris and meet it at low (relative) speed.

[Grover]

whats wrong with a good old cannon? fuel efficient if you do it right, and if theyre all on the same orbital plane, you probably only need to refuel it once or twice

[LethalDose]

This is why the tracking station needs a "Terminate/Recover All Debris" button.

[Taki117]

I have seen someone use engines in a spider web configuration to destroy floating debris. Basically take 4 engines, point them inward, fire them all at the same time and boom goes the debris, no messy clean up required.

[The Destroyer]

Mother... of god...

I was expecting some small landerleg bucket- not this amazing thing!

[Nobody]

I don't know if it is still compatible with the current version of the game but the sunbeam add-on to blast parts out of the sky.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/sunbeam/

It will take a lot of power and some time to burn up each part.

[BlazeKerba]

Wow. You sir have gone overboard on the bucket, but I'll tell you one thing, if you miss a debris with that thing, your Kerbal may need glasses....

Also, I have this slight fear that, depending on the Debris and the rate of impact that Debris makes to your bucket, wouldn't it, if at all possible, snap one of those cables you got there? They ain't really all that protected o.o

[Superfluous J]

Struts don't have collision boxes so they should be fine unless something hits the endpoint directly. I think a more common (and dangerous) problem would be crashing the piece into the cupola

[qeveren]

Remember not to (non-physics) timewarp while you have debris in the bucket, 'cuz it won't stay there...

[gtmattz]

Holy bucket batman....

Having played with FAR installed for a while I cringed a little at the idea of getting that uberbucket into orbit lol...