• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

Space junk littering orbit; might need cleaning up

ludahai

ludahai

Defender of the Faith
DP Veteran
Joined
Apr 24, 2005
Messages
10,320
Reaction score
2,116
Location
Taichung, Taiwan - 2017 East Asian Games Candidate
Gender
Male
Political Leaning
Very Conservative
article

WASHINGTON (AP) — Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say we may need to finally think about cleaning it up.
Click to expand...

We have polluted our water, our ground, our air.... we are now polluting low earth orbit...

That may mean vacuuming up debris with weird space technology — cosmic versions of nets, magnets and giant umbrellas, according to the chairman of an expert panel that issued a new report on the problem Thursday.
Click to expand...

Don't they have Mega Maid on planet Spaceball? Can we borrow it?

Since the space age began 54 years ago, civilization has littered the area just above Earth's atmosphere with leftover boosters and other parts that come off during launches, as well as old satellites. When scientists noticed that this could be a problem, they came up with agreements to limit new space junk and those plans had been working.
Click to expand...

Looks like the growth was under control... and then...

But two events in the past four years — a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite weapon test and a 2009 crash-in-orbit of two satellites — put so much new junk in space that everything changed, the report said. The widely criticized Chinese test used a missile to smash an aging weather satellite into 150,000 pieces of debris larger than four-tenths of an inch (1 centimeter) and 3,118 pieces can be tracked by radar on the ground, the report said.
Click to expand...

... the Chinese...

facepalm.jpg
 
I hear the Teabrains have come up with a plan that solves the "Space Junk" clean up and one other problem...

09.jpg
 
hazlnut said:
I hear the Teabrains have come up with a plan that solves the "Space Junk" clean up and one other problem...

View attachment 67115441
Click to expand...
We thought we'd send you up into outer space with with one of your butterfly nets to catch all the junk.
 
Leave it to some scummy humans to litter all over the universe.

Is there anything we don't trash?
 
This is why I always rolled my eyes at people who said space may be man’s salvation. I always thought why, so we can fook some other planet up too? Stay here and take care of our own damn planet first before we go somewhere else.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Leave it to some scummy humans to litter all over the universe.

Is there anything we don't trash?
Click to expand...

Space, air, water, just different altitudes. The real problem is attiitude plus arrogance, hubris, ignorance and complacence. Global Warming ring any bells? Nuclear waste. Oil leaks in the Gulf and everywhere else. The human race seems to be a parasite infecting its host.
 
Last edited:
We could solve the space junk problem in the same way the far right solves global warming. Just pretend it doesn't exist.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom