We sure like to litter a lot

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Pman13a

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click on the link for more, but there is a ton or crap orbiting our earth now because of our satellites

http://gizmodo.com/378713/space-is-full-of-crap

The European Space Agency has just released images showing all the

satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51

years of launching stuff to space since Sputnik launched in 1957.

That's about 6,000 satellites up there—of which only 800 remain

operational—plus thousands of other objects from launches and

accidents. According to their mindblowing simulations things are

getting a lot worse:

About 50 percent of all trackable objects are due to in-orbit explosion events (about 200) or collision events (less than 10).

Yes, we knew that there was a lot of crap out there, but not to this

extent. According to the ESA, this is really bad news and urgent

measures are needed. Explosions in space are not disastrous on their

own, but because of its aftermath. One example: a geostationary

satellite travels at 6,213 miles per hour. If it explodes, all the

debris stays near the orbit forming a cloud around the Earth within a

few days

 
Who cares? Space is big and what comes down get burned up in the atmosphere. I think there are bigger problems than space shit.
 
it is all in our orbit, going around at about 6,213 miles per hour

a lot of it is debris from explosions and such. If we are trying to launch a space ship, what would happen if a random piece of debris, which we would have no way of tracking, crashes into the ship?
 
The problem is that much of this debris is in perpetual orbits that other satellites and spacecraft use. Collisions of a pea sized object going 17,000 mph are extremely hazardous. Basically, we continue to fill up our orbit with debris, eventually anything we put up there will be destroyed quickly.

By the way, that incident a few months ago where China blew up one of its satellites: Basically doubled the amount of micro debris up there. Way to go China.
 
thank you i was going to say this +karma

this would also work with trash. earth is running out of space for trash to be safely disposed of, send it to the sun it will likely burn up before it even hits the sun and we will have a cleaner earth
 
Yeah, and the other reason is that aliens would have to kill us if we managed to pollute the rest of our solar system, not just our planet. I imagine that they probably think we're going to kill ourselves off in a few thousand years, so we're not worth the effort for them to wipe us out.
 
so it's not worth the cost to clean up the earth we are running out of land for trash so quickly i know it would be spendy but i think it would be worth it

and it wouldn't pollute our solar system if it goes into the sun because it would just burn right up and be gone forever
 
Yeah, it's great. The thing is we're not talking just modestly expensive. We're talking probably a trillion or so dollars just to get rid of half of New Jersey's trash.

If that whole space elevator thing ever becomes more than a science fiction writer's wet dream it might be possible.
 
i no a guy that did the "adopt a highway" thing, he cleaned his 2 mile stretch of highway 4 times a year. each time he collected 500lbs of trash.

FUCK PEOPLE JUST RECYCLE IT, OR THROW IT AWAY!!!!
 
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