2 satellites crash in space

[Sneeky]

getting crowded up there

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2468558,00.html

 

[gregmcc]

Nasty.

There's now tons of sapce junk floating around - wonder how they are going to clean it all up one day.

 

[Alan]

Not good if we start seeing collisions between satellites becoming a regular thing. When a satellite goes so does the service it offers here on earth.

 

[stoke]

Oh look, no responsibility.
Who's going to clean up the mess?
Who's going to pay for the cleanup?

 

[Alan]

Oh look, no responsibility.
Who's going to clean up the mess?
Who's going to pay for the cleanup?

How do you propose they clean it up?

 

[Submolecule]

Send up a huge vacuum cleaner to suck up the mess

 

[mercurial]

There are approximately 18000 space junk objects orbiting Earth at any given time. It's a huge problem and it's gonna double by 2050. There are 29 bases around the world where people sit every minute of the day to keep an eye on the stuff so that nothing nasty happens.

 

[Koos Custodiet]

Send up a huge vacuum cleaner to suck up the mess

It's space... it's *all* vacuum.

 

[Calico182]

It's space... it's *all* vacuum.

http://www.instantrimshot.com/

 

[Geriatrix]

Oh look, no responsibility.
Who's going to clean up the mess?
Who's going to pay for the cleanup?

Ok, so I'm starting a space janitorial company. Who wants to invest?
Pls note, anyone named Roger Wilco will get their job application fast tracked.

 

[CrzWaco]

Nothing from the rusian side?

 

[knobshine]

Ok, so I'm starting a space janitorial company. Who wants to invest?
Pls note, anyone named Roger Wilco will get their job application fast tracked.

damn you for making me nostalgia

 

[windowlicker]

Do things that are in orbit eventually fall and burn up in the earth's atmosphere?

 

[LazyLion]

Send up a huge vacuum cleaner to suck up the mess

Like the one they used in Spaceballs?

 

[Balstrome]

How do you propose they clean it up?

Come on! Asteriods, or Space Invaders, shoot em with GBL's. Star City has a couple rusting in central Asia.

 

[krycor]

Soon they going to want to control who puts things up there, should be fascinating to watch that

 

[Morgoth]

as soon as these objects enter the earth's atmosphere it will most probably disintegrate before it even gets there, there are countless asteroids that enter our orbit daily and burn out before it gets here, I doubt anyone cares :>

 

[Guest 20221009]

Arent they supposed to be tracking these things..I mean, there are people up in that space station thingy..

 

[Balstrome]

Sure they track the big stuff, but the small things like blown off panels and pipes are floating/flying around up there, at speeds +10m/s. Imagine a bolt hitting your million dollar sports satellite, it would go right thru and no one would know why the picture stopped and also they could not fix the problem.

 

[mercurial]

Apparently the objects that orbit the Earth travel at crazy speeds. I can't remember the number now but it was around 22000 something per something