Posted on 06/27/2015 8:59:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Fascinating. Thank you! ;-)
Looks like we need a big vacuum cleaner in space.
Oh. Wait.
Really cool, thanks.
#2)All those particles and stuff absorb heat from the sun, reducing our peril from global gorewarming.
#3) Future space travel enthusiasts will have to design orbiting trash scoopers which capture all those millions of 20,000MPH missiles.
Thanks. Best animation I’ve seen of this.
Some very interesting orbits some of that junk got into. The story on those would be nice.
Now we know why aliens don’t visit any more.
Can’t get through the debris field without crashing their ship.
Thanks martin_fierro, extra to APoD.
I say we just install giant lights and illuminate the trash in rainbow colors in order to attract LGTB space travelers. Sort of like a galactic bath house billboard.
It also serves as a Berlin Wall to keep innovators from building their own exit craft and leaving the rock.
Was out star gazing with my 25-70 binocs to see what was about and happened to catch something coming over. Was flashing almost like an airplane clearance light. Got the binocs on it and could see it was a cylinder flipping end over end and flashing in the remaining sun.
Heavens-above has a bunch of dead boosters and such that are visible, but had nothing for my locale at that time. Must have been undocumented space junk, but was certainly of considerable size.
Lot of crap up there.
Too bad we can’t drop that orbit down to traverse the US / Mexico border. Nobody would dare try to cross.
So take that, Saturn!!!!!
Aliens won’t have to bring any rocks with them to drop on us. Just gather up the junk we conveniently pushed up out of our own gravity well, form them into rods, and drop them back down.
Freegards
Cool! Are you in Honolulu? I’m just south of Sacramento, and city lights wash out most of the sky. Been thinking of dusting off the old Dob and heading up to the Sonora Pass. I hear the seeing is really good up there, and my wife has never seen the Milky Way, nor much else in the night sky, from a really dark site.
What’s a cm? Do they use metrics in space?
Centimeter (1 cm = 2.54 in). Yep, widely used by NASA and other ‘Merican agencies. Unfortunately (if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it).
We are in Kona (Big island), often get clouds in the PM. Folks up north of us near Waikoloa get the best viewing. When we used to go up to Roy’s for dinner, we would pull off the road on the way back to take in the night sky. Amazing what you can see with no city lights and clear air.
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