Ecuador's first satellite has crashed into space junk from a Soviet rocket launch in 1985 - Polidicks

Space junk is our only line of defense against ETs

[QUOTE=Dr.C;40756807]Space junk is our only line of defense against ETs[/QUOTE] The 'space junk problem' is actually cover for the government's operation to fill every inch of low-earth orbit with fucking shit so that the aliens they discovered at Roswell can't attack us

[QUOTE=millan;40753750]How were they able to specifically determine it's Russian junk but not to avoid it?[/QUOTE] Maybe it had "Property of the USSR" written on it.

You know, I always go all [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome]Kessler syndrome[/URL], it's happening etc. when something like this happens, but maybe it's not that bad.

[QUOTE=smurfy;40753791]I'd say we're lucky it doesn't happen more often [img]http://imgkk.com/i/hh_f.png[/img][/QUOTE] Also don't forget we only track objects larger than 10 cm, and considering the damage stuff the size of 1mm can do...

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;40755482]How would you even clean up space junk anyway? It's moving around so fast, it'd be like standing under a streetlight at night trying to catch all the little bugs by hand.[/QUOTE] Astrium (EADS space arm, the people responsible for most of Europe's launches) are working on a [B]space harpoon[/B]. It is literaly a harpoon fired from a unmanned spacecraft, the idea being it collects enough shit and then flies back to earth. The best bit is, if I remember rightly that the junk burns up but the craft remains in one piece so it can be reused.

I feel like I gained some brain cells reading this whole thread.

[QUOTE=Medevilae;40763865][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ufsrgE0BYf0#t=28s[/url] [editline]24th May 2013[/editline] Keep space beautiful or Sandra Bullock dies[/QUOTE] This summer, [B]Noomi Rapace[/B] stars as [B]Sandra Bullock[/B] in... [HR][/HR] [SUP]GR[/SUP]AVI[SUB]TY[/SUB] [HR][/HR]

[QUOTE=Jorori;40756009]Time to make space debris collecting a real thing. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fJbIzXm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Damn, I was just about to post that :v:

[QUOTE=Blockhead;40755728][t]http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/files/2012/03/GEO1280.jpg[/t] [/QUOTE] It's pretty cool how you can see the GEO belt in that picture. [editline]24th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=millan;40753781]Oh, these don't have propulsion of their own, do they?[/QUOTE] IIRC though we just changed the standard to allow for propulsion a ~month ago. People can finally start putting thrusters on them.

[QUOTE=smurfy;40753791]I'd say we're lucky it doesn't happen more often [img]http://imgkk.com/i/hh_f.png[/img][/QUOTE] Why the hell is that planet flooded

[QUOTE=Jsm;40762033]Astrium (EADS space arm, the people responsible for most of Europe's launches) are working on a [B]space harpoon[/B]. It is literaly a harpoon fired from a unmanned spacecraft, the idea being it collects enough shit and then flies back to earth. The best bit is, if I remember rightly that the junk burns up but the craft remains in one piece so it can be reused.[/QUOTE] Do they plan to put whalers on the moon?

Has this happened before? Things getting hit by orbited spacejunk I mean. [QUOTE=smurfy;40753791]I'd say we're lucky it doesn't happen more often [IMG]http://imgkk.com/i/hh_f.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] It looks large and clustered on that illustration, but remember how tiny and spaced that junk is in reality. It's like uh, I read somewhere about the Andromeda/Milky Way collision, where it is highly unlikely for even a single star to collide with another.

[QUOTE=The DooD;40756189]What's the syndrome or whatever called, where 1 thing breaks in space and creates more things. Then those things smash into each other and create more things and it just multiplies? It's something I remember Scott Manley talking about[/QUOTE] You mean the game asteroid [IMG]http://www.spyhunter007.com/Images/asteroids_game_screen.jpg[/IMG]

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