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Offline TechPro

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There be junk up there!
« on: November 02, 2009, 07:25:16 PM »
An image/graphic of Earth, showing the objects in Earth's orbit that NASA tracks. :o

http://www.wftv.com/slideshow/2691965/detail.htmlindex.html?currentSlide=38&taf=orlc

There be junk up there!  (watch out, Wally!)
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 06:22:27 AM »
Heh, must be really fun to make sure none of that stuff crashes into each other. :P
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 02:15:43 PM »
Why, if it's junk anyway?
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2009, 07:20:53 AM »
It's not junk in NASA's eyes.

Otherwise, why track it? :P
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2009, 11:06:46 AM »
They track the junk to avoid collisions with the non-junk (satellites, shuttles, space stations, etc…).
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2009, 03:26:25 PM »
Perhaps it's just debris from MD1032 saving the earth from an alien mining robot invasion and NASA just doesn't want to tell us.  ;D
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2009, 04:21:49 PM »
I was just thinking of saying that all of that debris was from Shiva!
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2009, 07:47:32 AM »
Actually, I'm sure that most of that space junk isn't "junk" at all, but things like satellites, that we modern day humans couldn't possibly live without.

I'm being sarcastic, of course. ;)
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2009, 02:32:59 PM »
There's even more junk up there when the Chinese blew up a satillite for no reason becides saying "Hey! We can blow up a satellite like the USA too!.....Just have to try it 3 times and add more missile and satellite debris..." What a dumb test. At least we had a reason.
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #9 on: November 05, 2009, 06:49:36 PM »
... We need a reason to blow stuff up?  ;)
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Re: There be junk up there!
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2009, 07:10:22 AM »
The US is one of the major world powers. Whenever we do something spectacular, all the other world powers want to make sure they can do the same thing. It's a competition.

There's your reason, NUMBERZero. :P
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