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Old March 18th 09, 02:35 PM posted to alt.astronomy,sci.space.policy,sci.space.history,misc.education.science,sci.physics
BradGuth
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Default Debris Spews Into Space in Collision of Satellites / nyt

On Mar 18, 2:34*am, Robert Eagle wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:56:06 +0000, BradGuth wrote
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On Mar 16, 4:20*pm, Double-A wrote:
On Mar 16, 5:19*am, Robert Eagle wrote:


You're right, of course. *But a few years ago, when I posted details of my
documentary "Space the final junkyard" , I was lambasted by every bore and
blowhard in the space news groups. *It takes a long time for the message to
get through!


The really profound think about junk in orbit is that "What goes
around comes around!"


Double-A


And now it's only going to cost us another $10+ trillion in order to
clean up the mess we created.


*~ BG


It's not going to cost anything - because no one is willing to pay for it to
be done!

RE


That's true. It'll be every man, woman, child and satellite for
itself.

In reality, our NASA and Russia like having that crap flying every
which way, because then only the most advanced nations would dare go
into space.

Come 2028 and 2029 should be the ultimate test, of who can still orbit
without being taken out by some kind of rogue space debris, and simply
let the next 10 generations pay for everything.

~ BG