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To: Red Badger

Space Junk. Wikipedia...

As of October 2019, the US Space Surveillance Network reported nearly 20,000 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth,[7] including 2,218 operational satellites.[8] However, these are just the objects large enough to be tracked. As of January 2019, more than 128 million pieces of debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), about 900,000 pieces of debris 1–10 cm, and around 34,000 of pieces larger than 10 cm were estimated to be in orbit around the Earth.[9]

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Maybe DJT’s Space Force can tackle these problems.


7 posted on 01/28/2020 10:29:06 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Click my screen name for an analysis on how HIllary wins next November.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Seems to me that all the space faring nations could pool their resources and build a robot spacecraft that could sweep up all that trash and send it hurling into the atmosphere and burn up.......................


9 posted on 01/28/2020 10:30:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Responsibility2nd

How about using them as ASAT target practice?


45 posted on 01/28/2020 11:07:13 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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