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Space: We've trashed it -- with high-speed debris
tvalentine
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-spacejunk0809feb08,0,7720847.story
i found this interesting.... i always just figured that it would fall back to earth and burn up, but i guess i was wrong.
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I wonder if this will become a serious problem years later
We humans have a habit of leaving out trash whever we go. Look at Mt. Everest . The amount of trash climbers leave behind is sickening.
FUCK YES
Now if traveling to space becomes a normal everyday thing, I can collect space trash for a living!
Actually if one of the radiator tubes did get hit they'd have to land immediatly or be very very uncomfortable. Basically in space there is no atmospere which means heat radiates away from you very very slowly, the crew could probably dehydrate itself in a mater of hours with just their own body heat and nothing else.
I find it amazing that by 2020 first world countries will be competing to get immigrants.
Exactly what I was thinking my good sir!
Exactly what I was thinking my good sir!
Wow. This is the first thing that came to my mind when I read the thread title as well.
Actually there is, it's called salvaging and it beats the hell out mining. Don't know if it will help out on your suck factor tho....
If your not making trash your not having fun!
it's interesting and thought-provoking . it seems like the earth is a big refuse dump haha!
I love this story. I think this is probably the third or fourth time I've read it in the last ten years or so. When news is short, they basically pull out stock stories like this.
As the article mentions, it's only a very narrow slice of the pie which is dangerous. The vast bulk of "space junk" as it's sometimes called is small enough that it can't do harm, despite its extreme speed. Larger pieces are very easy to track and maneuver away from. In fact, I think this story significantly overemphasizes the danger present. The space shuttle actually has a fair degree of protection. The only real risk of something catastrophic happening is an exposed astronaut (on a space walk) being struck by a debris too small to detect. The odds of this occurring are extremely small for a variety of reasons.
Again with the "humans are evil (especially greedy Americans) and don't care about the universe and trash everything" threads.
Shit im surprised i havent seen any loons posting saying "yeah we're probably killing alien life forms too with our plastic soda bottles and mcdonalds bags".
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
That's because anyone crazy enough to think that probably also thinks that they're the ones who have been probing them.
So they keep quiet in hopes that nobody notices.
Exactly what I was thinking my good sir!
Wow. This is the first thing that came to my mind when I read the thread title as well.
Agreed. Perhaps we can get our own space trash collecting team.
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