Way back in high school in the 1990's, we were asked to do a researched presentation and paper on a form of pollution. Mine was the only one on space pollution. There wasn't a lot of material back then, but it was recognized as a real problem. Since then, I've always cringed at the number of booster rockets and the like that just get jettisoned when they leave orbit. I'm kind of sad that even though this was all flagged almost 30 years ago, no one has thought to do anything about it even up until now.
@Learn ToCode003 I wonder... if they can actually come up with a way to salvage most of the larger space junk (for a start), it could be potentially recycled into new space engines or satellites... And I'm curious to know if there is a way to achieve escape velocity without booster rockets that need to be jettisoned (for weight consideration). I don't know if it will happen in my lifetime, but I'm curious to see how close reality can get to futuristic sci fi...
But isn't that a common thread among humanity? We create problems and then ignore them until it's either too late, too expensive, or too difficult to fix them. See climate change for example.
@@laurensegars4504 Oh, 100%. Climate change was already flagged as an issue more than 70 years ago (if not more). But the O&G and car lobbies won out the messaging war.
@@felisd Exactly. ExxonMobile for example has financed climate change research for decades, but most of it is unpublished, since it's aim was not to mitigate climate change, but simply to help the company keep up profits despite climate change. We know they invested a lot into misinformation campaigns and they still do, if you google it the first entry is Exxon whining about how they got slandered and how they always supported the fight against climate change, the next couple of pages consist of 90% documentation about how Exxon withheld information and spread misinformation.
@@creativedesignation7880 not surprised. IIRC, Ford or one of the other car companies did the same thing with electric cars back in the early 1900s. They bought up the patents for them and spnsored research for the sole purpose of sitting on it to ensure they never got made.
She's actually done a reasonable job of explaining the problem. And lets face facts us space nerds don't get listened too. Cos trying to explain this stuff technically just puts the sheeple to sleep.
@@tonywilson4713 I didn't watch it. I'm just guessing she went to her usual loud shrilly bit how "it's always the man's fault because our penises always get in the way of our brains."
Thank you for covering this obscure overlooked issue. Certainly not as important BLM or the wage gap, but something that if we just took a minute to think about could avoid problems in the future. But seriously, when do we ever do anything proactively?
Long term. It's more important. But it's like global warming. A slow moving avalanche. You don't think it matters till there's ocean front property in Oklahoma and the entire global logistics chain slows down to a crawl.
If space tourism is going to be a thing this is an issue that has to be addressed, unless you want to live through a real life version of the movie Gravity, or worse, Aniara.
I'm really glad you're talking about this, because it really isn't talked about enough. People may not care now, but they sure will when their phone is a brick, their PC is on dial up and Netflix no longer works!
One of the first unmanned vehicles I designed was an orbital fragment collector that could run unmonitored for years until full, steadily gaining mass until it fell back into the atmosphere. I know, I was a boring child!
Tell me more. Seriously. this could save lives if it could be completed. I know a guy who works/worked-not sure whether he’s retired now or not, it’s been a bit- as a defense contractor that might be able to help make this happen. That and I’m a giant nerd. used to really be into space stuff and learning how to make stuff like that function in space. I think I still have some of that knowledge rolling around in here so I might be able to help on that front too. But even if I can’t you should still put it out there in case someone can.
Yes and no. If the magnets are too strong they will interferre with working satelites nearby, plus not all space trash is ferromagnetic. So only part of the problem would be solved while maneuvering the magnet in a way to limit inferrence would be a major task.
Erm, yes, but, dealing with facts, Starlink satellites ARE at least going to self de-orbit. A condition of launching anything into space from now on, should be that it MUST have the ability to de-orbit the end of its lifespan. As Elon Musk is doing.....
I don't see the moon blowing up anytime soon, but great anime nonetheless... If you haven't checked out the quarantine rendition of The Real Folk blues I highly recommend it :)
There's an anime called Planetes that deals with this concept, the main characters are basically unglamorous space janitors who clean up Earth's orbit. The creation of an international effort to clean up the orbit started after a small bolt broke a window and "crashed" an interplanetary civilian transport.
If orbital decay were sufficient, most of the debris would have already burned up in Earth's atmosphere. At the operational altitudes of most satellites, decay isn't a significant factor - otherwise they would require massive amounts of fuel to maintain a stable orbit over their operational lifetimes.
@@ldbarthel it’s at least a mitigating factor. Things in low earth orbit really only stay there for a few years. If there were a catastrophic Kessler disaster, even if things remained there, after a few years there would likely be less danger for LEO and a better cleanup plan could be implemented.
fun fact: in the Star Wars universe, spaceships have two types of shields - energy shields (which protect against laser attacks but can only be used for brief periods because of how much power they use up) and particle shields (which protect against space debris and missiles, but have to be deactivated for launching missiles or docking with other ships)
The 17000 mph speed is not valid as objects at the same altitude are going to be orbiting at similar speeds. While collisions can cause more cascading debris, they are not travelling at hypersonic speeds relative to each other
You're absolutely right. Anything moving THAT much faster or slower would be at a very different altitude. But a 25gram bolt moving a just 500mph is still very dangerous.
No, not dense enough, BUT we could do it with enough aluminum foil (like 10 year worth of world wide aluminum foil production) and enough of Elons new Starships to cheaply place tens of thousands of cheap sats with giant origami arms and foil inbetween between earth and sun to block a couple percent of sunlight to neutralize global warming. If Starship delivers on its promiss it would "only" be a multi trillion $ program, but that might actually be cheaper than dealing with climate change in other ways. But with current rockets its definitely outside our abillities.
Give it a handfull of satelite crashes and we are there tomorrow. The total amount of trash does not need to increase, only the amount of pieces of trash and that could happen at any time.
Tell people it has recycle deposit value like bottles and cans, the homeless will figure out how get up there and collect it. That will leave the space agencies scratching their heads.
hey, can you be hyper sonic in space? i dont think you can, because super, and hyper sonic require a relation to a sound barrier in a medium right? I know about -this- much about aviation science, so i'm just asking, not sure.
Mach numbers or other comparisons to sonic speed are usually not used when referring to movement in space. Depending on the velocity it is mostly noted in kilometers or miles per hour, or with higher velocities in fractions of lightspeed in vacuum.
Technically "mach" even in a very low earth orbit is irrelevant. It theoretically exists but you'll never go that fast. They probably mean "about 3 500 mph" when they say "hypersonic".
There have been several designs proposed over the past twenty years. This is a problem that NASA, ESA and probably others have been working on for a while. But nothing comes together all that quickly if it's going to have to go into orbit.
You missed that Elon and Jeff are both in the process of adding thousands of additional satellites to the most crowded altitude band so that financiers can get market data milliseconds faster than through the undersea cables... oh and so billionaires can play multiplayer video games while in international waters.
I... think it’s worth noting that, as managing and protecting US Satellites is a major part of their duties... Space Force would in fact be useful in this regard. That’s... well, one of the reasons why it makes a bit of sense to spin out those tasks away from the Air Force and why this push to create a more prominent military group dedicated to tasks outside of Earth’s atmosphere, to give them greater prominence befitting the increased reliance on the network of satellites, both military and civilian. I mean, I hate the name, the logo’s not too much better, and Trump clearly only did it for reasons of vanity, but when you get past the surface elements, it does start to make a lot more sense. Space Force might end up managing the garbage collectors of LEO...
Sent back to the 1970s is the optimistic prediction. For it to be just 1970s, the government, police, firefighters, army, navy, air force, airliners, every single major corporation on every single country on Earth would have to have a perfectly executed plan, with no corners cut back, with the interest of the people first and the economy second, and this streamlined perfect plan should be implemented for several years, maybe decades. And if the pandemic showed me anything, if that its simply not going to happen that way. No, if a Kessler Syndrome happens, we are going back to the late 19th century, get ready to learn how to ride a horse.
You would have a point ... in a perfect vacuum. Yes, there is such a thing as “supersonic” or “hypersonic” in space. The solar wind, for example, is hypersonic.
Non-interference is what the rules say. Rules Captain Kirk never seemed to obey. Doubtlessly that Prime Directive forbids absentee-fathering hybridized kids!
Spaceforce needs to clean it up, it will be good training for their ultimate mission, keeping an asteroid from destroying life on earth. We need to colonize the moon for this reason and because that’s where NASA should be launching space missions from.
George Lucas and "Babylon 5"? I'm hoping like him wearing a Starfleet uniform in the meme, that you made that quip for its comedic effect, Sam. FYI, George Lucas has no connection at all to "Babylon 5"... That was J. Michael Straczynski's baby.
Yes, it was a joke. It’s an internet meme where you mash together different genre properties to annoy fans who don’t know the meme. Like a picture of Voldemort labelled Sauron with the caption “Winter is coming.”
That's really hard to do because ICBMs don't have to fly very high. There's a bit of atmospheric drag all the way up to about 200km. Orbits in that zone decay after a few years, so you'd have to constantly "refresh" the debris field.
Sure, I care, but as just one un-empowered citizen, all I can do is just vote for 1 of 2 candidates who I hope will win, then vote with enough other politicians in a majority (in both Houses, with a President of the same party) to hopefully make the right laws to make things better.
Well, that was sort of an irrelevant tangent - but if you want money for people, you bet! Let’s cut military spending in half and use the money to let people get job training or other education.
Space science helps everyone. That computer and/or phone you used to complain about space science was made using techniques developed through space science, and probably used internet that relies on space science.
I feel like the left doesn't talk about space enough, a lot of people on the left are understandably jaded about human technological progress and cynical about national feats of strength with potential military applications... BUT space exploration is hugely inspiring for a large portion of the population and the environmental and economic costs are completely negligible when compared to just about any other human activity. This fixation on negative messaging turns a lot of people off, and has allowed the right wing media to spout off incredibly flimsy libertarian arguments about how space X is somehow proof that government is bad, completely unchallenged... Never mind that the "private" company space X gets most of its money from taxpayer funded government entities, and that the "government"/"beurocratic"/"socialist" SLS is mostly built by private companies like boeing and lockheed. In the coming decades space related issues will become more important than effort, so it's essential that we talk about them.
I dont understand why evryone is hating on united space force because it already existed in the us air force and now that is just a sepereted branch of military..
Way back in high school in the 1990's, we were asked to do a researched presentation and paper on a form of pollution. Mine was the only one on space pollution. There wasn't a lot of material back then, but it was recognized as a real problem. Since then, I've always cringed at the number of booster rockets and the like that just get jettisoned when they leave orbit. I'm kind of sad that even though this was all flagged almost 30 years ago, no one has thought to do anything about it even up until now.
@Learn ToCode003 I wonder... if they can actually come up with a way to salvage most of the larger space junk (for a start), it could be potentially recycled into new space engines or satellites... And I'm curious to know if there is a way to achieve escape velocity without booster rockets that need to be jettisoned (for weight consideration). I don't know if it will happen in my lifetime, but I'm curious to see how close reality can get to futuristic sci fi...
But isn't that a common thread among humanity? We create problems and then ignore them until it's either too late, too expensive, or too difficult to fix them. See climate change for example.
@@laurensegars4504 Oh, 100%. Climate change was already flagged as an issue more than 70 years ago (if not more). But the O&G and car lobbies won out the messaging war.
@@felisd Exactly. ExxonMobile for example has financed climate change research for decades, but most of it is unpublished, since it's aim was not to mitigate climate change, but simply to help the company keep up profits despite climate change.
We know they invested a lot into misinformation campaigns and they still do, if you google it the first entry is Exxon whining about how they got slandered and how they always supported the fight against climate change, the next couple of pages consist of 90% documentation about how Exxon withheld information and spread misinformation.
@@creativedesignation7880 not surprised. IIRC, Ford or one of the other car companies did the same thing with electric cars back in the early 1900s. They bought up the patents for them and spnsored research for the sole purpose of sitting on it to ensure they never got made.
Thank you! Well presented and a serious problem today and even more serious as time goes by.
I'm glad that she got into this enough to actually address the Kessler Syndrome.
The Kessler Syndrome just so happens to be what Rusty Schweickart calls giving people a golden shower
Is that the one where you complete the run in less than twelve parsecs? #RidiculingStarWarsNeverGetsOld
She's actually done a reasonable job of explaining the problem.
And lets face facts us space nerds don't get listened too. Cos trying to explain this stuff technically just puts the sheeple to sleep.
This is the first time I have heard it adressed by someone other than a scientist, someone studying to become a scientist, or a scif-fi enthusiast.
@@tonywilson4713 I didn't watch it. I'm just guessing she went to her usual loud shrilly bit how "it's always the man's fault because our penises always get in the way of our brains."
Spaceballs reference = automatic like
Space is the final junkyard. To boldly throw your junk where it hit you in your back
Wall Street Bets pimping Interstellar Roombas. Stock prices to the moon!
"Let's do this for Rusty." Great way to end it :)
awww, thanks for watching... never gets old.
Do a segment on the potential Earth shortage of Helium and its dire impact. Too many waste precious helium
Why should it go in a rocket, or an MRI machine when it can go in a balloon or make my voice funeeeee
Thank you for covering this obscure overlooked issue. Certainly not as important BLM or the wage gap, but something that if we just took a minute to think about could avoid problems in the future.
But seriously, when do we ever do anything proactively?
Long term. It's more important. But it's like global warming. A slow moving avalanche. You don't think it matters till there's ocean front property in Oklahoma and the entire global logistics chain slows down to a crawl.
A department for the newly formed Space Force should be Debris Recovery!... or free enterprise Salvage operations might be an option.
So what Trump created could actually be useful ... as a Space Janitor force?
If space tourism is going to be a thing this is an issue that has to be addressed, unless you want to live through a real life version of the movie Gravity, or worse, Aniara.
The infographics are gold. Reminds me of “Chuck Tingle” cover art.
I'm really glad you're talking about this, because it really isn't talked about enough. People may not care now, but they sure will when their phone is a brick, their PC is on dial up and Netflix no longer works!
Our country leaves its trash everywhere we go. Need to address this.
Everyone!
Spread the rumor that if we pick it up, it will reveal things about the competition.
One of the first unmanned vehicles I designed was an orbital fragment collector that could run unmonitored for years until full, steadily gaining mass until it fell back into the atmosphere.
I know, I was a boring child!
Tell me more. Seriously. this could save lives if it could be completed. I know a guy who works/worked-not sure whether he’s retired now or not, it’s been a bit- as a defense contractor that might be able to help make this happen. That and I’m a giant nerd. used to really be into space stuff and learning how to make stuff like that function in space. I think I still have some of that knowledge rolling around in here so I might be able to help on that front too. But even if I can’t you should still put it out there in case someone can.
I just realized, Wall-E Might become a documentary!
And you know who could work on fixing this mess?
Space Force
Space Reclamation Force?
Hahah!! I laughed out loud at the Ad Astra reference - gosh, it was sooooo boring.
idk why but i really liked it....
Wow. Way to go Sam. Normally, there’s never time given to this story on mainstream news TV. Well done.
Welcome to 1982, glad someone else decided to start paying attention.
Love that mention of Babylon 5. The greatest sci fi show ever. Only Mass Effect surpasses it, but that's a game.
ya...no.
oooh, can we build space garbage truck satellites - like big magnets shaped like Wall-E !
Yes and no. If the magnets are too strong they will interferre with working satelites nearby, plus not all space trash is ferromagnetic. So only part of the problem would be solved while maneuvering the magnet in a way to limit inferrence would be a major task.
"We've run out of space to dump our trash!"
"Wait, did you say space?"
We need to go to space first....
thankfully it is way too expensive to send trash into space
Finally, a purpose for Space Command
Oh, good - another thing to fear
I knew about this a decade ago, though I am a bit of a space nerd.
@@bthsr7113 Only a decade ago?
How about developing:
A space garbage truck ?
A space recycling truck ?
"Space Trash"
Elon Musk's nickname in about 5 years.
Erm, yes, but, dealing with facts, Starlink satellites ARE at least going to self de-orbit. A condition of launching anything into space from now on, should be that it MUST have the ability to de-orbit the end of its lifespan. As Elon Musk is doing.....
Here I Thought he was already Nicknamed Space Trash 😁😂😂
Can't wait for one of his Starlinks to detonate over Nordhausen.
I really liked this cheers Sam.
Hey! I live in Pittsburgh! We have more than "dozens" of good people! At least a few hundred!
Jefferson Airplane called this stuff out on one of their later songs, Have You Seen The Saucers from 1970.
George Lucas in Babylon 5 making Star Trek quotes. You have to be a sci-fi nerd to make that good of a joke. We see you Samantha Bee :)
In a Trek uniform to boot.
I nearly died laughing
wow cowboy bebop did predict the future for earth.
I believe Planetes is a more relevant anime.
I don't see the moon blowing up anytime soon, but great anime nonetheless... If you haven't checked out the quarantine rendition of The Real Folk blues I highly recommend it :)
I kept thinking of the shell of space garbage around Earth from Bebop as well.
Uh, this should have mattered long ago. It was talked about in the early 70's. We've known all along about litter everywhere!
Agreed I read about in 1982.
There's an anime called Planetes that deals with this concept, the main characters are basically unglamorous space janitors who clean up Earth's orbit. The creation of an international effort to clean up the orbit started after a small bolt broke a window and "crashed" an interplanetary civilian transport.
Thankfully orbital decay is a thing
If orbital decay were sufficient, most of the debris would have already burned up in Earth's atmosphere. At the operational altitudes of most satellites, decay isn't a significant factor - otherwise they would require massive amounts of fuel to maintain a stable orbit over their operational lifetimes.
@@ldbarthel it’s at least a mitigating factor. Things in low earth orbit really only stay there for a few years. If there were a catastrophic Kessler disaster, even if things remained there, after a few years there would likely be less danger for LEO and a better cleanup plan could be implemented.
Just made a mini black hole with the hydron collider, dump all the space debris in
fun fact: in the Star Wars universe, spaceships have two types of shields - energy shields (which protect against laser attacks but can only be used for brief periods because of how much power they use up) and particle shields (which protect against space debris and missiles, but have to be deactivated for launching missiles or docking with other ships)
There's actually a science-fiction manga called Planetes focused around this very problem. I'm actually going to start reading it today.
There's also a sci-fi movie about the subject on Netflix called Space Sweepers.
On fire - cheers, Sam! 🥰
Agree with the Ad Astra joke.
Sounds like a quest for Roger Wilco!
"She Was Killed By Space Junk." 😉
She did it for Rusty. RIP brave female astronaut who's number I must wash in my space suit pocket.
All I could picture is "toilet seat girl" from Dead Like Me. 😂
Hello Sam 👋
Earth being locked in pre-Spage Age tech because of a halo of space debris seems like an amazing plot for a realistic sci fi series.
Would’ve been a good time to point out that Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are only making it worse.
I hope Seth Meyers come at her for that Pittsburgh joke lol
The 17000 mph speed is not valid as objects at the same altitude are going to be orbiting at similar speeds. While collisions can cause more cascading debris, they are not travelling at hypersonic speeds relative to each other
You're absolutely right. Anything moving THAT much faster or slower would be at a very different altitude. But a 25gram bolt moving a just 500mph is still very dangerous.
I mean, there was a anime called planetes, that warned about this -back in 2003!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes has the main characters collecting space trash.
What? No cell phones? I can hardly wait.
Cellphones don't rely on satellites so they wouldn't be affected. The GPS could be damaged however.
We still have a grim future if we keep producing and dumping trash here.
I love the fact that Jimmy Smits appears to be the main lawyer on “Space Law.”🤣🤣🤣
After eight years in office, Matt Santos founded a DC law firm.
Would a wide-spread space junk help block the sunlight, if yes, then, to what percentage?
No, not dense enough, BUT we could do it with enough aluminum foil (like 10 year worth of world wide aluminum foil production) and enough of Elons new Starships to cheaply place tens of thousands of cheap sats with giant origami arms and foil inbetween between earth and sun to block a couple percent of sunlight to neutralize global warming. If Starship delivers on its promiss it would "only" be a multi trillion $ program, but that might actually be cheaper than dealing with climate change in other ways. But with current rockets its definitely outside our abillities.
@Newsthink I see you.
It’s not going to be a problem until factors of ten from now, but still we’re on track to meet that figure within a century or two.
Give it a handfull of satelite crashes and we are there tomorrow. The total amount of trash does not need to increase, only the amount of pieces of trash and that could happen at any time.
Reference- futurama’s “a big piece of garbage” episode
Why is there no UN EPA? Unoosa? Why does noone talk about this? Literally the most important thing in the world
"2cm ball bearing traveling at 17,000 miles per hour" ...good old metric-imperial system!
For the record, Norbit was hilarious.
The bbc clip made me miss Amy Hoggart
Awwww love you so much same..😘
This why we need space magnets
Nice not enough we make earth a gigant junkyard now we do it in space too.
Anyone else here for the Babylon 5 joke? Love it.
Why don't we just send up those guys in the orange jumpsuits
Tell people it has recycle deposit value like bottles and cans, the homeless will figure out how get up there and collect it. That will leave the space agencies scratching their heads.
I ❤️ SAM 🐝
🖖😉
We must gravitate towards a Parliament Funkadelic based system of goverrnance.
Ir its radioactive, they should send two missions. One to clean up what was left to drift.
Hahah close one Sam! Hide those alien ears 😂
Is there anything we don’t have to worry for a minute? Lol.
Drinking too much water
Norbit? What?
hey, can you be hyper sonic in space? i dont think you can, because super, and hyper sonic require a relation to a sound barrier in a medium right? I know about -this- much about aviation science, so i'm just asking, not sure.
Yup. And there’s always a medium. Because space is not a perfect vacuum.
Mach numbers or other comparisons to sonic speed are usually not used when referring to movement in space. Depending on the velocity it is mostly noted in kilometers or miles per hour, or with higher velocities in fractions of lightspeed in vacuum.
Mach numbers make perfect sense when interactions with the medium become significant.
Technically "mach" even in a very low earth orbit is irrelevant. It theoretically exists but you'll never go that fast. They probably mean "about 3 500 mph" when they say "hypersonic".
Fun fact: did you know that Europeans have already passed laws about that?
So the ISS does what any cruise ship does and dumps its waste overboard.
Devo warned us.
can't they make a spaceship to scoop it up and fly into the sun or ocean? they were making the pool rhoombas for the ocean... so one for space?
There have been several designs proposed over the past twenty years. This is a problem that NASA, ESA and probably others have been working on for a while. But nothing comes together all that quickly if it's going to have to go into orbit.
Spaceballs...
You missed that Elon and Jeff are both in the process of adding thousands of additional satellites to the most crowded altitude band so that financiers can get market data milliseconds faster than through the undersea cables... oh and so billionaires can play multiplayer video games while in international waters.
1- Don’t hate on me but your Awww thanks for watching sounds insincere. 2- You brilliantly combined terror with funny. 3- Love your program!
I... think it’s worth noting that, as managing and protecting US Satellites is a major part of their duties... Space Force would in fact be useful in this regard. That’s... well, one of the reasons why it makes a bit of sense to spin out those tasks away from the Air Force and why this push to create a more prominent military group dedicated to tasks outside of Earth’s atmosphere, to give them greater prominence befitting the increased reliance on the network of satellites, both military and civilian.
I mean, I hate the name, the logo’s not too much better, and Trump clearly only did it for reasons of vanity, but when you get past the surface elements, it does start to make a lot more sense. Space Force might end up managing the garbage collectors of LEO...
That's a really good idea.
Basically, they would be Janitors In Space. Not a sexy-sounding job at all.
Green... hahahaha
Sent back to the 1970s is the optimistic prediction. For it to be just 1970s, the government, police, firefighters, army, navy, air force, airliners, every single major corporation on every single country on Earth would have to have a perfectly executed plan, with no corners cut back, with the interest of the people first and the economy second, and this streamlined perfect plan should be implemented for several years, maybe decades. And if the pandemic showed me anything, if that its simply not going to happen that way.
No, if a Kessler Syndrome happens, we are going back to the late 19th century, get ready to learn how to ride a horse.
nowdays they call it starlink
Let's ask SpaceX to clean up the space debris that doesn't automatically de-orbit.
We can’t get all countries to follow the international rules here on earth(much less in space)
pedantic comment incoming: 4:00 you can't have supersonic (let alone hyper-sonic) anything in space.
You would have a point ... in a perfect vacuum.
Yes, there is such a thing as “supersonic” or “hypersonic” in space. The solar wind, for example, is hypersonic.
Non-interference is what the rules say.
Rules Captain Kirk never seemed to obey.
Doubtlessly that Prime Directive forbids
absentee-fathering hybridized kids!
Spaceforce needs to clean it up, it will be good training for their ultimate mission, keeping an asteroid from destroying life on earth. We need to colonize the moon for this reason and because that’s where NASA should be launching space missions from.
George Lucas and "Babylon 5"? I'm hoping like him wearing a Starfleet uniform in the meme, that you made that quip for its comedic effect, Sam. FYI, George Lucas has no connection at all to "Babylon 5"... That was J. Michael Straczynski's baby.
Yes, it was a joke. It’s an internet meme where you mash together different genre properties to annoy fans who don’t know the meme. Like a picture of Voldemort labelled Sauron with the caption “Winter is coming.”
I wish we could litter space with enough scrap metal that icbms can't work.
That's really hard to do because ICBMs don't have to fly very high. There's a bit of atmospheric drag all the way up to about 200km. Orbits in that zone decay after a few years, so you'd have to constantly "refresh" the debris field.
“Fun” fact, USA nuked the first satellites - the rest of the world wasn’t that happy since we had agreed to stop testing nukes (On earth 🤞).
We trash everything.
Where ever the two-leg-ged upright wanders, he leaves his junk behind
I will go to the one place that isn't corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!! 😁
Commercial space travel is coming. A lot of companies are already trying to implement it
Sure, I care, but as just one un-empowered citizen, all I can do is just vote for 1 of 2 candidates who I hope will win, then vote with enough other politicians in a majority (in both Houses, with a President of the same party) to hopefully make the right laws to make things better.
How many objects is Elon going to send to the orbits? Where is the life cycle management for all those objects?
I dislike our focus on space travel instead of helping people here on earth.
Well, that was sort of an irrelevant tangent - but if you want money for people, you bet! Let’s cut military spending in half and use the money to let people get job training or other education.
Space science helps everyone. That computer and/or phone you used to complain about space science was made using techniques developed through space science, and probably used internet that relies on space science.
@@mariag.8242 I like that idea too.
We won't be hit by and asteroid we'll be hit by space trash. Eeh South side right here.
I feel like the left doesn't talk about space enough, a lot of people on the left are understandably jaded about human technological progress and cynical about national feats of strength with potential military applications... BUT space exploration is hugely inspiring for a large portion of the population and the environmental and economic costs are completely negligible when compared to just about any other human activity. This fixation on negative messaging turns a lot of people off, and has allowed the right wing media to spout off incredibly flimsy libertarian arguments about how space X is somehow proof that government is bad, completely unchallenged... Never mind that the "private" company space X gets most of its money from taxpayer funded government entities, and that the "government"/"beurocratic"/"socialist" SLS is mostly built by private companies like boeing and lockheed. In the coming decades space related issues will become more important than effort, so it's essential that we talk about them.
I dont understand why evryone is hating on united space force because it already existed in the us air force and now that is just a sepereted branch of military..
Just ask all the PFers
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