llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months agoThere are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of onearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up187arrow-down1external-linkThere are 2,000-plus dead rockets in orbit—here’s a rare view of onearstechnica.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareTroylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·5 months agoOr, looked at another way: everything we’ve ever thrown in the ocean… Is still in the ocean. Space junk seems unique because it is moving. But really we’ve been discarding crap wherever for all of human history.
minus-squareZectivi@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoAbsolutely a fair point and I thank you for mentioning it. I hope through our continued evolution, we learn to stop polluting our surroundings.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months ago everything we’ve ever thrown in the ocean… Is still in the ocean Including most of the first stages for the aforementioned rockets, which were much larger than the upper stages.
Or, looked at another way: everything we’ve ever thrown in the ocean… Is still in the ocean. Space junk seems unique because it is moving. But really we’ve been discarding crap wherever for all of human history.
Absolutely a fair point and I thank you for mentioning it. I hope through our continued evolution, we learn to stop polluting our surroundings.
Including most of the first stages for the aforementioned rockets, which were much larger than the upper stages.