I'm not exactly the greenest human that ever trod the earth, I like to recycle the cardboard and plastics but this article regarding the most recent international space station work kind of hit a nerve.
The big complaint was the static from one space workers head phone. Apparently the static rattled him a bit.
"Despite the nerve-racking racket, the space walkers managed to prep the Kibo lab — Hope in Japanese — and the new porch for their mechanical hookup. Wolf removed a cover from the lab and tossed it overboard; the white cover drifted away, flipping end over end."
Um, is this casual disposal routine or a boo boo? We do read of the shuttles coming back loaded up with garbage from the station... so wha happen?
And the BIG picture is that eventually it all blows up into subatomic particles a few billion years from now. Now THAT's recycling!
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...yes but until then, does it just rattle around in space waiting for something to crash into it? Like the Space Shuttle?
Think of all of those thousands and thousands of satellites left up there. YOu know when a satellite breaks a new one is sent up and nobody goes to get the other one because it costs a ton to send the new one. See, we litter outerspace before we can leave the planet we take a trip from to live on the moon. :P
Hmmm, maybe NASA can adapt some of their technology for zapping space garbage or we literally will be walking to the moon. R
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