What a Hunk of Junk
Posted by blandable on April 22, 2008
Surfing around the Net I came across these images of the Earth and all the junk that is orbiting the planet. I am shocked, I never, ever dreamt that this much rubbish was circling our Earth. How on Earth (pardon the pun) do they manage to launch any more satellites without them colliding with the old ones…and why has no one bothered to clean them up? Surely leaving them up there cannot be good?
“Some of the items orbiting are useful satellites. However, of the 6,000 satellites launched since the 60s, it is estimated only 800 are operational. The rest float uselessly in orbit, accompanied by thousands of items of debris from collisions and explosions.”
Anyone concerned????
feww said
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!” ~ Henry David Thoreau
tysdaddy said
Makes me wonder how enhanced that picture is . . . space junk has been with us for decades now, and fodder for some interesting sci-fi musings, but really, how often do we get up there to clean it up? And how daunting of a task would that be? Interesting musing . . .
Brian
blandable said
Yeah, its definitely digitally enhanced, but it still gives pause for thought…Space – the final frontier to litter