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Space Balls

POSTED BY: ANTHONYT
UPDATED: Friday, December 23, 2011 09:17
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Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:02 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/22/mysterious-metal-ball-from-space-
falls-in-namibia/?hpt=hp_c2

Hello,

I suppose this is what we get for littering orbit. I wonder what it is?

--Anthony


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Friday, December 23, 2011 3:06 AM

CANTTAKESKY


It's crazy. Space debris is a serious, but little known environmental hazard.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110909-nasa-space-debr
is-uars-satellite-top-five-science/

Quote:
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.


This includes radioactive materials.

[Shaking head.]



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Friday, December 23, 2011 9:17 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



The Chinese likely have something to do with this. They've made a bad situation far worse, when they intentionally obliterated 2 satellites into each other, as a satellite killer test. The resulting collision greatly increased the # of objects we now have circling the planet.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

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