September 21, 2011 Space Junk

[HungLikeJesus]

To see the space junk?

[infinite monkey]

Hi Tara!

I can't see your pictures, so I don't know what the twits are doing, but just that you called them twits...I do like the cut of your jib!

(Oh noes...next 'fad': jibbing. People will try to hang sideways from a pole, all the while waving in the wind...fapping, if you will.)

[CaliforniaMama]

But other pieces [of space debris] —old rocket segments jettisoned in orbit and abandoned spacecraft—fall toward Earth unguided. Last year one object a day, on average, made an unshepherded dive into the atmosphere, said NASA's Nick Johnson.

To date nearly 6,000 tons of human-made material have survived the fiery journey through our atmosphere, according to the Aerospace Corporation, a space-research center.

A woman taking a late-night walk in Oklahoma in January 1997 saw a streak of light in the sky, then felt something brush her shoulder. It turned out to be part of a U.S. Delta II rocket launched in 1996—the only space debris known to have hit someone . . .

From: Space Debris: Five Unexpected Objects That Fell to Earth

[monster]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

(Oh noes...next 'fad': jibbing. People will try to hang sideways from a pole, all the while waving in the wind...fapping, if you will.)

this was mentioned on the radio this week, it's called flagging -although that is meaning #5 of flagging in the Urban Dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flagging

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by ogwen69

Aren't there plans afoot for a bigass space hoover?

That idea sucks.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by monster

this was mentioned on the radio this week, it's called flagging -although that is meaning #5 of flagging in the Urban Dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flagging

Even the names of these uninspired acts are uninspired.