Wednesday, February 11, 2009

WHAT A FUCKING MESS!
Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of its kind in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station. NASA said it will take weeks to determine the full magnitude of the crash, which occurred nearly 500 miles over Siberia on Tuesday.

It had to happen. Two large satellites collide in space. God knows there’s enough junk up there. Earth orbit is so trashed that it makes junk yards like Everest or K2 look like Disneyland.
Perhaps a way to augment the economy is to train “trashonauts” to man space vehicles that push orbiting garbage back into Earth’s atmosphere where it will burn to cinders and only the large chunks will hit unsuspecting third world countries.
How long will it be before some chuck the size of Blackberry wipes out the Hubble Space Telescope or the Space Station? We need an entire industry to clean up the orbit around earth. Jobs! Money! Security! Industry! Graft! Corruption! It could work!
I propose the Hoover of all time. A trash seeking satellite that will scour the polluted void around our planet like a Roomba!

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