May 13, 2009

Space junk

Man, we litter everywhere --


"This computer generated image, supplied by NASA, shows objects that are currently being tracked in Earth orbit. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent each item." Not to scale.

4 comments:

Grandpa Eddie said...

Man just has to litter everywhere doesn't he!?!

Fixer said...

If there is extraterrestrial life out there, they wouldn't bother stopping here after seeing how badly we've shitted up the place.

Capt. Bat Guano said...

Fucking slobs. The space station ain't nothing but a glorified single wide trailer.

m said...

look at the bright side - maybe we'll create an impenetrable shell around the planet before we find a way to colonize another one, thus walling ourselves in and sparing the rest of the universe being infected.