Space Junk Getting Worse 242
HockeyPuck writes "According to Space.com the amount of space junk is getting worse. 'A head-on collision was averted between a spent upper stage from a Chinese rocket and the European Space Agency's (ESA) huge Envisat Earth remote-sensing spacecraft. [...] But what if the two objects had tangled? Such a space collision would have caused mayhem in the heavens, adding clutter to an orbit altitude where there are big problems already, said Heiner Klinkrad, head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany."
Re:Time to send up Quark! (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like it is time an outerspace garbage man.
Where can I apply for that job?
I hear Technora Corp is putting together some kind of department for this...
Perhaps.. (Score:4, Funny)
I thought space was a vacuum (Score:3, Funny)
So why don't they just use it and clean up?
Re:Push them further away (Score:4, Funny)
That wouldn't take much fuel or anything...
Re:Push them further away (Score:4, Funny)
Exactly, so we should build a gigantic ground based laser that can vaporize a school bus sized object in 1/4 a second. I want the beam to be 30 feet wide and blackout every city in a hemisphere when it fires. Heck make it powerful enough that it adjusts the earth's orbit due to the amount of photos being fired.
Plus we can use it when the aliens get here all pissed off that we are cluttering up the lower EM spectrum with a lot of useless chatter.
Re:or pull them back (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Push them further away (Score:5, Funny)
We should start sending all our garbage there.
I agree, but how will we convince all 535 members of Congress to get on the space ship?
there is no space junk "problem" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perhaps.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Push them further away (Score:2, Funny)
It'd be like flying one bag of trash from New York to China on its own private charter jet.
Didn't that already happen [chinadaily.com.cn]?
Re:Push them further away (Score:4, Funny)
I suggest we create a fleet of Ark ships. Elected officials get on Ark Ship #2.
Brett
Re:there is no space junk "problem" (Score:3, Funny)