Space Balls by AnthonyT

REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS

Space Balls

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

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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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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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/

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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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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

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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.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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