To: Fitzcarraldo
Well it does get lonely out there
2 posted on
02/07/2007 5:14:37 PM PST by
Syncro
To: Fitzcarraldo
3 posted on
02/07/2007 5:16:50 PM PST by
steveo
(Is there anything else I can help you with today?)
To: Fitzcarraldo
she was walking all alone
down the street in the alley
her name was sally
she never saw it
when she was hit by space junk
in new york miami beach
heavy metal fell in cuba
angola saudi arabia
on xmas eve said norad
a soviet sputnik hit africa
india venezuela (in texas
kansas)
it's falling fast peru too
it keeps coming
and now i'm mad about space junk
i'm all burned out about space junk
oooh walk & talk about space junk
it smashed my baby's head
and now my sally's dead
To: Fitzcarraldo
I think China understands the risks just fine. The also understand that we don't see our astronauts as expendable and may be leery about putting them in an increasingly dangerous environment. They on the other hand are more willing to take the risk with the lives of their astronauts.
6 posted on
02/07/2007 5:19:39 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
China could go for the shotgun effect and just send up exploding rockets full of ball bearings in proximity to target satellites. I think their attitude would be denial of space to everyone, including themselves if it came to world conflict.
7 posted on
02/07/2007 5:20:50 PM PST by
Rb ver. 2.0
(A Muslim soldier can never be loyal to a non-Muslim commander.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Our version of the Rings of Saturn.
To: Fitzcarraldo
Is there anything at all that's not going to wipe every human on the face of the earth out of existence?
13 posted on
02/07/2007 5:31:40 PM PST by
CFC__VRWC
(Go Gators! NCAA Football and Basketball Champions!)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Since most (all?) of the junk is metallic, how about an orbiting supermagnet?
18 posted on
02/07/2007 5:41:35 PM PST by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
All this junk will reflect sunlight back into space causing dangerous global cooling.
23 posted on
02/07/2007 5:46:09 PM PST by
palmer
(Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Assuming an average altitude of 1000 miles, the area covered by this space junk is about 255 million square miles. With 20,000 pieces of space junk, that works out to one piece of space junk for every 12,700 square miles. That's about one piece of junk for every area the size of the state of Maryland.
24 posted on
02/07/2007 5:46:38 PM PST by
kidd
To: Fitzcarraldo
Now, experts say, China's test Jan. 11 of an anti-satellite rocket that shattered an old satellite into hundreds of large fragments means the chain reaction will most likely start sooner. Experts? Try idiots. Even LEO space is HUGE.
32 posted on
02/07/2007 6:04:44 PM PST by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: Fitzcarraldo
spreading chaos through the heavens. What crappy writing. NYT subscribers get a bonus in my book for being able to read, but it ends just about there.
33 posted on
02/07/2007 7:05:59 PM PST by
sionnsar
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To: Fitzcarraldo
It's already happened.
35 posted on
02/07/2007 7:28:10 PM PST by
rabidralph
(Hoo-ray, Beer!)
To: Fitzcarraldo
I just saw a Doco on the Discovery channel about what happended to the Columbia and i really think it hit a piece of space junk in orbit, not a loose foam tile from the booster and I believe that's what damaged the wing tile that compromised the surface of the vehicle. Such a Tragedy .... May they rest in peace.
http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/index.html
38 posted on
02/07/2007 7:55:25 PM PST by
cavador
To: Fitzcarraldo
I worry about this every time I bake cookies.
41 posted on
02/07/2007 8:07:15 PM PST by
ThomasThomas
(I just can't say Democrat with out the ick)
To: Fitzcarraldo
Mama always told me not to mount space junk.
42 posted on
02/07/2007 8:13:45 PM PST by
Nachoman
(90 % of everything is crap.)
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