I was watching a recent Joe Rogan Podcast where he had Neil deGrasse Tyson on as his guest and they mentioned this animation, which depicts the known space debris that has formed around the Earth since the beginning of space exploration, this stuff was pretty mind boggling to me prompting me to share these animations. I suppose I figured a lot of this stuff would just get flung out in space or burn up in the atmosphere and never considered this Debris field that is developing around the planet. This has me speculating that whether in a millennia or perhaps a couple millennia, maybe Earth will develop rings like Saturn, only made out of Junk. https://youtu.be/wPXCk85wMSQ https://youtu.be/IOwv1j-fUbo
I've seen this before, it's pretty disgusting. Even scientists are trashy. They just put stuff up there without thinking about what's to become of it? People suck............ok, just some people suck
They're talking about cleaning up the worst of it using drones. Soon enough, we could have a new recycling place in orbit that could charge outrageous prices for scrap.
hmmmm, what is worse, space debris or Cosmik Debris????????????????? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtx4ZJ1cwI0
And rich people with no lives are already signing up to be shot out into atmosphere in their coffins. I'd take their money and then just cremate them. Lol. Idiots. One thing though that I'm surprised the OP failed to mention was, considering a tiny particle can put a hole through satellite or space station, on a millennium, how do you actually suppose we are going to be leaving our earth for space exploitation with all those particles up there? Launch a rocket, gets taken out, more debris. Try again? Lol. Rings like Saturn is at the bare minimum of this conversation in reality. What happens when a simple satellite cannot be put into orbit because it keeps getting destroyed by the junk up there?
Not sure what you mean by a tiny particle can put a hole through a space station, there's already been a space station up there for the past 20 years. In the podcast, Tyson does make a comment in regards to what I think you're saying though, that space Debris may potentially become a significant obstacle in space exploration. Some brief research I did suggests a rocket can get out of the Earth's orbit in under 10 minutes, so the debris may not be much of a problem in terms of travel at present and I'm sure as Wu Li Heron alluded too, that they will likely devise ways to circumvent the issue.
"Space Debris and Human Spacecraft. More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit the Earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft." And we're talking about people in coffins floating around now, if you've got the money for it. Nice try, but you still didn't get out of this world alive.
Yes, but everything up there is spinning fast, really fast. What matters is not total velocity but relative velocity. If the ISS is traveling at 17.5k MPH and a piece of debris is traveling 17.7k MPH then the relative velocity is only 200 MPH of difference. While something large could certainly damage or puncture the ISS going 200 MPH faster, relative velocity; it means that small stuff is likely to just "bounce" and make a horrid sound in the process - like hitting a piece of a tire at 70 MPH on the interstate - it's scary as hell, loud, but doesn't do much if any damage to your car depending on the size. Debris is certainly an issue because it endangers lives that go up there, and it clutters the space around our pale blue dot. Pollution really doesn't seem to have an "end". When will humanity wake up and realize we can no longer destroy our pale blue dot, for it is the only home we've ever known, and we are thousands of years away from migrating anywhere else.
They're working on the problem: Post mission disposal (reentry burn up) Drag enhancement (inflatable balloons, sails, or electrodynamic tethers to increase drag and reentry) High altitude orbits (getting out of the congested areas) Space tugs (nets, harpoons, robotic arms, tentacles grapple objects and sends them to reentry or high orbit) Ground based lasers (bump small objects into orbit decay) Aerogels (sticky blobs to capture small debris) Slingshots (object is captured and flung to decaying orbit while flinging momentum is used to reach next object) ? Huffing and puffing (atmospheric air bursts to disturb orbits causing decay) ? Electrodynamic debris eliminator ( solar powered 2 mile long conducting tape that develops a charge when it pass through the Earth's magnetic field. It then hits large objects knocking them into a decaying orbit)
nah just shoot em down with golden BBs What do they want to be messing around in space for anyway Theres Fuck all up there
If we look just at some of the current practical benefits: Cordless power tools Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Quartz clocks Smoke detectors Tang juice powder Teflon Velcro Space Pen Microchip Infrared ear thermometersVentricular assist device Artificial limbs Light-emitting diodes in medical therapies Invisible braces Scratch-resistant lenses Space blanket Aircraft anti-icing systems Improved radial tires Chemical detection Fire-resistant reinforcement Firefighting equipment Temper foam Enriched baby food Portable cordless vacuums Freeze drying Space age swimsuit Digital image sensor Water purification Solar Cells Pollution remediation Correcting for GPS signal errors Structural analysis software Remotely controlled ovens NASA Visualization Explorer OpenStack Powdered lubricants Ultrasonic bolt elongation monitor used in mine, railroad, water, radiation, and medical analysis Assuring absolute absence of disease-producing bacteria and toxins in food HACCP guidelines
Is this a list of Stuff left up there ? ? Calling something "Space age " dont mean we got it From space ?
