Satellites Orbiting Earth 1963-2013

European space Agency ^

[lbryce]

Maybe you want to see it, maybe you don’t

[Paladin2]

Kool, looks like a UFO convention.

[Fungi]

That's a whole lot of crap up there, all of which will return to earth someday.

[ThomasThomas]

Some Object May Appear Larger Than They Really Are

[loungitude]

Yes. But we have far greater risks to our world right now. Well, one far greater risk.

[ExGeeEye]

Climate change!

j/k

[NativeSon]

Remember when Skylab came down?

[Fungi]

True. My only point is that all that junk will eventually come down.

[bgill]

What goes up, must come down.

[Arlis]

What about the geo-stationary ones at 22k mis.? Won’t some of them drift off into space?

[Yardstick]

Poor Earth is all ate up with them little buggers.

[Fungi]

Not if by some measure they exceed the escape velocity of earth’s gravity.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, if I don't want to see it, I'd have to stop lookin' up. ;') Thanks lbryce, extra to APoD.

[Conan the Librarian]

Eventually it will become profitable for someone to go up and collect all that stuff.

Just a matter of when.

[houeto]

Your tagline almost made me choke.

[Conan the Librarian]

That bad? :D

[houeto]

Nope. That GOOD!

[hattend]

Before we go to Mars we ought to go out to geosynchronous orbit and get rid of all the dead satellites taking up valuable space. Either cause them to deorbit or boost them to the sun.