Posted on 06/27/2015 8:59:24 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Earth is a ring planet now
Thats why we have a deflector shield, silly.
My wife grew up in Hilo. I definitely prefer the Big Island. Wife would like to live in Honolulu.
The other islands are very beautiful, but I prefer things to be a little less crowded. So, it’s the Big Island if I have my druthers. Little chance of that, though. Hawaii is just too expensive and too liberal! Almost as bad as California in regard to politics. :-(
I don’t understand how they keep the ISS out of that mess.
Big mystery as to what could cause them. Couldn't imagine, myself. But now, at least according to the article I read, equatorial ridges are thought most likely to be the collapsed remnants of rings. An asteroid hits the object. Lots of material is thrown out into orbit. It slowly coalesces into a ring, which then ultimately collapses back down onto the surface.
I don't think earth's ring of man-made debris could ever leave a noticeable ridge around earth's equator, but just sayin'.
Yeah, seems awfully big to have to play dodgeball. I know they do that with smaller spacecraft, but the ISS??
Its not like its heavily armored, even something small closing with them at 35,000 miles per hour could destroy them
It should look like one of those road signs you see out in the country. ;)
A bunch of duct tape around it.
I like that. Bigger than a baseball we gotcha. Smaller than a pea wont hurt you. In between those 2, weeellll good luck, have a nice flight.
that is a very interesting theory
they look like backbones
ISS is just above all the white one right near Earth on that gif
Remember that the ISS is in a low low orbit
WOW, never seen that picture before. Serious damage. It’s the vodka, man. ;-)
Exactly. When I first saw them, I thought, “Oh, man, that’s creepy!” Couldn’t imagine what might cause them... Alien laser wars with weapons so powerful they are capable of liquifying a slice of a moon, thousands of light years away?... Massive moon quakes and upwelling along a system of faults that completely encircle the moon?... Powerful gamma ray bursts from merging black holes that somehow are more tightly focused than anything we’ve ever seen, slicing up planets half a universe away?... Nothing seemed remotely sensible.
That would be scary
I might use that in a scifi story
Be my guest. They’re yours.
I didn’t know you wrote SF, GL! Very cool.
Some of the early launches had some strange orbits
In fact one of the first US satellite launches was the Vanguard 1, March of 1958, it is still up there along with 2 other Vanguards launched later.
Making Vanguard 1 the longest orbiting artificial satellite, it looks to stay up there for close to another 200 years. It stopped operating completely in 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_1
Its orbit takes it from 410 miles at closest to 2,390 miles at the farthest.
Wiki list of derelict satellites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Derelict_satellites_orbiting_Earth
The idea of a planet being cut in half... has possibilities.
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