Space Junk

[Dhar_2]

Images of the congestion in low orbit around the planet.





it looks pretty rammed up there. 6000 satellites launched since the 60's. only 800 operational. this is gonna be a problem in the future me thinks. it already looks like a nightmare to get around. wtf we gonna do when we have to start navigating through this mess?

[feather]

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I'm surprised the bulk of it hasn't fallen back to Earth?

[poults]

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Wow, i didnt realise there had been so much released into space.

[Life on Other Planets AKA Johns]

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yup there is shit and all up there

[Lorn]

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That is bogus. There is no way 6000 satellites would look like that.

[Donny Concrete]

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Abandoned! Any crew?

[feather]

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Negative.

[robophobia_1]

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That is bogus. There is no way 6000 satellites would look like that.

agreed, it surely would take millions to go all the way round a planet like that

[threehills]

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A satellite looks like no more than a pinpoint of light in the night sky from earth, from a distance of ~50miles. At this distance, at least a few hundred miles, it's doubtful that you'd be able to read NASA on the side of the can like you practically can with some of these.

[Dj Lunchtray]

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LOL, I see what looks to be a can of baked beans or tuna fish floating around. Someone is surely having fun with photoshop here.

[Dj Lunchtray]

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Are you sure this isn't a close up of an egg being bombarded by sperm?

[Steve Graham]

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gullible?

[day_for_night]

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i saw this on daily planet. there isnt' just 6000 satellites, but another 42,000 pieces of 'junk'. stuff jetisoned from space missions, things they've lost off the space station, etc. there is alot of crap up there, orbiting at very fast speeds (think 10x faster than a bullet). the guy was saying its not a matter of if, but when, this starts to be a real concern for the safety of people up there. getting hit by something a little bigger than a grain of sand could puncture a space suit.

and of course they photoshopped them to make them look bigger. if they drew them to scale...you wouldn't see anything but the earth.

[Steve Graham]

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I'm sure there is a lot of crap up there, but I highly doubt these are actual photos of it

[feather]

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That's still a fair bit of shit ... and why isn't any of them coming down? I thought all objects in geosynchronous or any ol' orbit are on a slow descent back to Earth?