April 13, 2008: Pigs In Space

No, not these pigs in space....


These, pigs in space....

From ESA (European Space Agency);

Maybe those that pay to put these sats in orbit should also have to pay for their destruction/removal/disposition after their useful life is over...I've said this for years.

The way the prices of scrap metal are going, maybe Branson can make it profitable. Tourist rides on a space scrap truck.

some body needs to collect , sort , bundel and jet this stuff to the moon for raw product when we set up a Moon base .

We were promised a moon base by now, weren't we? Vacations on the moon? Fishing in ancient moon volcano holes for sexy moon mermaids and mermen? all that stuff the brochure promised?

Someone should just go up there and get all that stuff, and put it out to the curb.

This is what's making space launches more and more difficult. Hopefully someone comes up with a good way of getting rid of that debris. Does anyone remember seeing this joked about in the trailers of the future Pixar film, Wall-E?

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Originally Posted by Eclipse Does anyone remember seeing this joked about in the trailers of the future Pixar film, Wall-E?

More!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiGH9QNiU0

Aren't there zoning laws . . .

. . . against this sort of eyesore? Earth must look like the place with the Chevy and two old pickup trucks up on blocks in the front yard. Plus the busted-down washer and doorless refrigerator on the porch.

P.s.: (xo)3Bruce, thanks for the welcome the other day.

Maybe this is our new defense system to keep those little green men away. Just make the whole damn neighborhood look bad and they'll move in across town!

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Originally Posted by The 42 Yeah, I was just thinking about that. Another thought: If the only place we're getting our resources is Earth, then we WILL eventually run out of metals, or if we find a way to fabricate metal from something else, then we'll run out of mass. All that debris would be much more useful brought back to earth and melted down than flung off into space... Too bad the only people in a position to actually do anything about it are too short-sighted to care!

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Yeah and depicting each little tin can and nut as something about the size of the Florida tends to exaggerate the problem a weeee bit.

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Originally Posted by WillieO Maybe this is our new defense system to keep those little green men away. Just make the whole damn neighborhood look bad and they'll move in across town!

I read a recent interview with 93 year old Harold Rosen. He is the inventor of geosynchronous communications satellites—the satellite systems we use today to communicate and transmit data around the world instantly.
Syncom, the world’s first geostationary communications satellite, launched in 1963, was born of Rosen’s ingenuity, and he is still consulted on new satellites.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce I read a recent interview with 93 year old Harold Rosen. He is the inventor of geosynchronous communications satellites

With the price of raw materials these days it might soon be worthwhile to turn the ISS into a re-cycling center!
I bet a lot of that is pretty high quality metal also.
Somebody needs to come up with a solar-powered forge.

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Originally Posted by glatt I thought Arthur C. Clarke was normally given credit for that.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce I read a recent interview with 93 year old Harold Rosen. He is the inventor of geosynchronous communications satellites—the satellite systems we use today to communicate and transmit data around the world instantly. Syncom, the world’s first geostationary communications satellite, launched in 1963, was born of Rosen’s ingenuity, and he is still consulted on new satellites.

He retired from Boeing, but is still an active consultant. He was interviewed for the Boeing magazine, Frontiers.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce the satellite systems we use today to communicate and transmit data around the world instantly.