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Space Is Full of Crap

The European Space Agency has just released images showing all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51 years of launching stuff since Sputnik. That's about 6,000 satellites up there—of which only 800 remain operational—plus thousands of other objects from launches and accidents. According to their mindblowing simulations things are getting a lot worse: More »

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11:40 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Jesus Diaz
77,544 views, 181 comments

Latest by n/a: Space junk is nowhere near as dangerous as it sounds. Since all the junk is orbiting in the same direction (the same as the Earth's rotation, thanks to launch mechanics), and in the same orbit, the relative velocity amongst objects more »

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Shepherd Sues Russian Space Agency For Dropped Rocket Debris

Boris Urmatov, a Russian shepherd, is claiming $42,000 (that's one million roubles) from Roskosmos for dropping a 10-foot-long chunk of rocket in his yard. Apparently it just missed his outdoor toilet— we're hoping he wasn't in there at the time. The poor chap's village in the Altai region lies beneath the flight path of rockets launched from the Cosmodrome at Baikonur, so he may actually have a case. The space agency seems relaxed about it all: according to a spokesman "They fly, they fall, they fly, they fall. It's how they work." More »

12:06 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,438 views, 19 comments

Latest by Bokusatsu_Tenshi: After that military drunk-driving-russian-tank-demolishes -your-house case, I think Boris will be lucky if the Russian Space Agency don't just laugh at his face and drop even more rocket droppings on his property just for fun... more »