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Astronauts Forced To Take Shelter From Space Junk
An anonymous reader writes: Three astronauts living at the International Space Station were forced to scramble to safety Thursday after a "close pass" by flying Russian space debris. The men decamped into the Soyuz spacecraft, which is attached to the orbiting station, while a chunk of an old Russian weather satellite passed 1.5 miles away. Flight engineer Scott Kelly tweeted: "Happy there was no impact. Great coordination with international ground teams. Excellent training."
Not so much fight, just ignore, until... ...there is some tragedy and they get a chance to declare a "War on Space Junk", then they will go into full gear, setting up shell corporations to suck up government funding while accomplishing very little beyond what would normally deorbit due to atmospheric drag. We might even get lucky and create an even more dangerous situation by placing tons of gear into orbit attempting to 'clean up'
Of course they will declare victory early on and then blame a subsequent administration for abandoning their efforts, defaming everybody who fell in the battle against space junk and cow-towing to the effects of inertia and gravity
So, business as usual
Wherever You Go, There You Are
... being able to keep their old junk but in reality they must replace it with inferior but more expensive space junk.
You're still pissed off about that low-flow toilet, aren't you, Hank?