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Transforming Orbit Into A Wasteland

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the use-the-force-luke dept.

I found an article (Yes, the article is now 404) in the CNN Space section this morning, talking about a recent report at a UN Conference on space. The author of the reporter alleges that programs like Star Wars and the like would basically turn LEO ? into a "wasteland" for satellites for decades or even centuries. And the wonderful part is that NASA's Off ice for Orbital Debris will close in October, due to budget cuts, despite 10s of thousands of already existing debris. Yah. Have fun with space tourism!Update: 04/23 19:14 GMT by H : It appears that the CNN article was pulled - I can't seem to find it - but Space.com had another report on the subject. And Space.com has also the updated story that CNN was linking to - and the update may be why it was pulled, because it appears that the Office for Space Debris may have some salvation yet.

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  1. fist post!@!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes yes yes yes yes yes !

    1. Re:fist post!@!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      nonononono!
      what a maroon

  2. Re:404 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)


    Ahh, editors not following their own advice ... what are the odss ?

  3. Things To Do Today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Pick nose

    2. Proudly show friends huge booger w/ hairs embedded in it

  4. I just found out today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...I am homosexual. What a fucking life I have.

  5. Fish-And-Chips by popeydotcom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

  6. PLS MOD PARENT TO +5 INFORMATIVE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  7. Re:The U.N and CNN? by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope your argument is sarcasm... CNN may as well run for a democrat senate seat they are so biased... dont forget about global cooling... maybe warming and cooling will combine for no effect... junk science at its best. Good science is generally not driven by political motives.

  8. Yup, that's how it really is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And all these people going on about how bad it is are idiots who skipped physic's class. Any NERD would know this.

  9. Saturn by Easy2RememberNick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know! And that arrogant planet Saturn has the nerve to show off!! Those rings around it how long have they been there?? ...millions, billions of years??? Someone should put Saturn in it's place. Damn you Saturn!!!

  10. Re:The U.N and CNN? by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I dont know, CNN might be a bit to the left of communism...
    And the UN just wants a global government so some little fu(k country ending in -stan can tell the US what to do... at which point I hope the US has the sense to shut down this joke.