[Sik Simon]

What do you think about this?
http://www.examiner.com/x-32018-Kans...al-over-Norway

It's obviously something Russian, and I see someone mentioning something about a rocket entering warp speed. Most likely it was a rocket spinning out of control, but nonetheless, it seems otherworldly. How many rockets have you seen with a stationary blue tail the size of Rhode Island? I've seen some crazy shit on the internet and most of it occurred in countries neighboring Russia (coincidence?). So what do you think? Anyone seen anything like this before?

[Shok]

*runs around, arms manically flailing*
we all doomed, doomed I tell ye.
It's the end of the world!

I've seen those pics, and I can't figure out exactly what I'm looking at. Their excuse is weak at best, and I don't believe it.
Could be anything. Freak weather, atmospheric shift. Honestly, I just think it's the universe loading a new page...

[Zelos]

that is some weird shit.

[Uncletiggs]

Hell, the locals here were freaked out over a meteor that fell here a week or so ago.. It happened in the middle of the night. So it got expained really quickly that it wasn't 'god' exacting revenge on the wicked.

Yah never know what junk is gonna come back into orbit and crash. How many pieces of junk we{humans} got floating up there now?

[Zelos]

[Uncletiggs]

Hmm, that was a decade ago.. we have more now..

[Uncletiggs]

Oh, heres a link with a Youraboob vid on the page.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93237?fp=1

same story, just with the vid attached to it.

[Sik Simon]

Why is there never an official comment from the russian military? You know if we did some shit like that we'd be like "Yea, sorry canada, epic fail missle test, you know how we do."

[Sik Simon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091210...ilitarymissile
finally some god damn answers

[Uncletiggs]

they really need to get megamaid up there to fix that problem.

The last shuttle mission that docked with the space station and worked on the Hubble had many warnings go off about debris headed towards them.

I think piloting a shuttle up there gives a new dimension to the Asteroids game.

[DutchDiva]

Originally Posted by Tozzy

Nicked this shit from another forum -




Space Debris

As of april, 2005 at least 13 nuclear reactor fuel cores, 8 thermoelectric generators, and 32 nuclear reactors are known to be in Earth orbits below 1700 km.

Before 1961, the entire Earth satellite population was just over 50 objects. Now earth orbit is cluttered with: ~11,000 objects bigger than 10 cm, of which ~9,000 are catalogued and tracked (~8000 are of US or USSR origin) - including around 600 functional spacecraft; ~100,000 objects from 1-10 cm -- too small to track, dangerous to spacecraft; and several million objects smaller than 1cm.

What are they? Jettisoned mission junk, rocket fuel, space station garbage, abandoned rocket parts, used nuclear reactors, leaked radioactive coolant and exploded bits (~150 unplanned explosions of rockets and satellites have occured to date). Collisions between orbiting debris make even more debris. Hundreds of close passes (less than 1 km apart) occur daily between catalogued objects. Each year around 100 objects fall out of orbit and survive re-entry, crash landing somewhere on earth. Dozens of earth orbit satellites launched by the USSR and the USA between 1965-1988 used nuclear power. Several have fallen out of orbit and crash landed. Nuclear power systems are being considered for projects in the next decade. About 75 - 100 new satellites are launched each year.

http://www.theglobaleducationproject...al-ecology.php

And they say we humans are polluting Mother earth . . .
What about space !?

[Zelos]

I wonder if in the future, when the human race is extinct, all those satellites and junk will form into a ring like Saturn.