IvyMike

Critical space junk threshold approaching

Great; not only are we furiously busy polluting the Earth, but we've managed to foul up our escape route:

Even without launching any additional spacecraft, the number of new fragments created by collisions will exceed the number falling back to Earth and burning up by 2055.

There sure is a lot of crap up there.

Tags: space, space junk, science, astronomy, pollution

posted by IvyMike @ 1/19/2006 11:03:00 PM