As long as NASA exists, our economy is in tip top shape, couldn't be in better shape...
As long as we can afford NASA...
we can afford to throw trillions of dollars their way.
Space junk storm will up mission costs: experts
you need to be a EXPERT to figure that out?
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Way to go! We're so great at destroying and junking up our home planet, we can now use those skills to destroy outer space.
Just another example of how nearsighted and stupid humans are. This problem is not limited to anything in particular but ends up ruining everything over time.
Space junk is inevitable. When the Soviets launched Sputnick 1 in space, it began a new place for junk to exist. Once you've had a collision, parts start falling, etc., you're already screwed. It will be impossible to clean it out. People better pray that the space junk won't fall out of orbit and crash on Earth.
All they need to do is build a vacuum cleaner like the one in Spaceballs. Really, a satellite version of a Roomba would do it. No they will ignore it until someone gets killed...that is the way the government works.
the good thing is that the aliens won't be able to land on our planet if we keep this up.
is this what they meant by the STAR WARS defense program?...great to know we have billions to blow when our country is in debt to china up to our eyeballs...great Job Obama...How about shutting it down for awhile?..Can we lay these people off for a few years and save some money?
Hey this not bad. Here people have been complaining about not being able to find work...here ya go.
Suit up a few of the non-producers, here on earth, and send them into space to clean things up. It is a perfect opportunity to put some people to work and help the unemployment rate.
And, I already know what some of you are thinking. And, no I can't go. I am "altitude deficient". And yes, that does mean, I am afraid of heights.
Any volunteers?
Space cleanup is something we (as humans, not just americans) need to work into our space budget. If we send something into orbit, we have to look at down the road, when it is no longer needed there, we need to retrieve it and that needs to be taken into consideration when we launch something instead of turning space into a junkyard for our kids and grandkids to figure out how to clean up after us. And that's not to mention the safety aspect of it. Remember skylab? Sizzeling chunks of steel the size of cars falling who knows where? "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
We should put a strict limit on what we launch into space and make the parties responsable for launching it, responsable for bringing it back down safely when it is no longer needed. Who knows? Maybe all that junk up there might have something to do with our golbal warming. Excuse me, climate change.
We as Americans need to quit worrying about everyone elses problems in the world and focus on the problems here at home. We also need to use the billions upon billions of $ that they are spending on space missions and get our country out of its colossal debt. Use the space money to pay for the healthcare reform so the wealthy will stop whining.
I find it amazing that it took them so long to start worrying about it. Did they think it would end up in some black hole?
I think of an old Loony tune cartoon. The one where the little martian says, :" Humans, they disgust me" I think I'll blow up the world.
We have not even occupied the place yet, and already we created environmental problems. What's wrong with this human species? Can scientists find the genes responsible for our littering and destroying the environment we set our footprints on? Is it in our DNAs to decimate and wreck our destinations?
Just wait until 2012 when our Ozone is gone, the space crap is inoperational due to the solar flare that will crash ALL of our electronics, and this crap RAINS down upon us with all the planes in the sky AND all the debris just from space alone. WOW! Did you know that when they took a picture of Earth from the Saturn sattelite that EARTH has a ring of manufactured space debris? It's visible from space and we've known it for YEARS! You still believe our governments? Hmm....
Its easy to solve...send some illegal aliens to clean it....only $8.95 per hour.......What? Its just a thought.
What nobody will tell you is that LEO is somewhat self-cleaning. Stuff in orbits less that about 200 miles up come down in about a year or so. As for sending something up to clean up what is already there, it is cost prohibative.
Nicholas Johnson, program manager and chief scientist of the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, probably the world's leading expert on this matter, stateed in a paper that we lack the technology and funding for anything feasible at this time to solve this problem. Here's a solveable puzzle that, whomever figures out, will make some serious money and help secure people, planetary communications and space equipment. I sure wish young people would think about this puzzle with as much passion as they do on video games and moaning about the economy. The ONLY way the USA will be strong again is if we start using our heads and come up with new mousetraps again. That's always been a huge part of the American Dream . . . Great American Know-How. The economy and this nation will flounder with only lazy myoptic morons who think a thermometer is an instrument of the devil.
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Most of the " Space Debris " is floating around NASA . Close this damned thing down . You want to do some research ? Find out why it always seems to rain for days right after they send one of these stupid Buck Rogers lunacies up into the air. But of course we worry about Carbon poisoning here, and go green but we can clutter up the Universe with all the junk from these things. Close NASA down now, we've got better use for the money. Like living.
I know we have Treaties against the weaponization of space, but it would seem that its time to mount a Laser cannon on the space station and have a crew whos total job is vaporising a lot of the smaller stuff and and providing the energy top deorbit the alrger stuff. Its not like we do not have the technology, and Lasers work much better in space.
It really makes you stop and think, doesn't it? The training and talent it takes to secure our satellites and space craft is enormous. I'm in awe. I wish there was some viable way to clean up the space junk rather than just use valuable resources avoiding it, especially if it could destroy an entire space craft. I wonder what studies they've done into that?
What did they think would happen to all the stuff that they dis-guarded in space?? Just makes you shake your head in bewilderment!!
In my honest opinion NASA is a waste of money to start with. I could see a missle defense but not all the waste of money thay NASA does.
We do need to learn about deploying missles but we need to take care of our country and its people first.
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