This just in from AolNews.com – “The amount of junk in low Earth orbit — where the shuttle and the space station travel — has increased 60 percent since 2006, according to NASA.”
And, if you believe the headlines, the problem is growing.
“William Jeffs, NASA spokesman for the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the millions of pieces of space junk include half a million pieces bigger than a marble and 20,000 bigger than a softball.”
A junkyard in space? Sounds like a reality TV show waiting to happen. Or worse.
Mudd’s History of the World in One Paragraph – First you invent stone tools and bash rabbits; then you invent agriculture and bash the rest of the critters; then you invent the Industrial Revolution and bash the entire planet; then you invent space travel and make a frigging big mess that signifies what a bunch of dumb-asses Homo erectus asphaltus tends to be.
It makes you wonder – are primates with cell phones hard-wired to leave a trail of crap in their wake? The answer seems as clear as the noon day sun (unless you happen to be wandering the back roads of Iceland at the moment, where a lovely volcano has decided to turn the sky into a film noir).
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