[fluff]

OK, I have CNN on in the background and they just had something on about a new satellite that can read your newspaper (personally I think it should buy its own). But anyway, then they went on about how many satellites are up there and they showed loads of little dots suffocating our ickle planet.

So is space just full of junk now?

 

[Wumpus]

Yes.






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[Transcend]

Yes. I'm not sure ont he exact number, but NORAD tracks an astronomical amount of space junk by the minute.

 

[MudGrrl]

I like to watch the satellites in the night sky.......

 

[Westy]

Gravity will eventually take over and there will just be one big pile of crap in the sky. Actually when skynet takes over there will just be one sattelite system left over, everything else will be strategically shot out of the sky so as to land on elementary schools.

 

[McGRP01]

The junk isn;t only in space....

 

[Ian F]

The junk isn't only in space....

That was the first thing that came to my mind as well.

 

[N8 v2.0]

I heard someone once shaved some junk someplace...

 

[habitatxskate]

I like to watch the satellites in the night sky.......

can you really see them?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

can you really see them?

Yes. Go out on a clear night and watch the stars for a while. Eventually you'll spot one that moves slowly across the sky. Bingo.

 

[fluff]

Yes. Go out on a clear night and watch the stars for a while. Eventually you'll spot one that moves slowly across the sky. Bingo.

One proviso - don't try it in a city, you need somewhere with little light pollution, but you sure can see them.

 

[habitatxskate]

i'll give that a try when i get bored...though i may have seen one, though i just think "since when do stars move>?"

 

[fluff]

i'll give that a try when i get bored...though i may have seen one, though i just think "since when do stars move>?"

Pretty much all the time....?

 

[Mackie]

I like to watch the satellites in the night sky.......

It's wrong to wish on space hardware....

 

[fluff]

It's wrong to wish on space hardware....

Good call.

 

[Ian F]

i'll give that a try when i get bored...

Camping at Plattekill + nice, clear night =

 

[gastro]

Viewer to give some perspective: http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html

 

[habitatxskate]

one passes over at 7, though its not dark yet.

 

[PatBranch]

It will take about 10 min for one to go from horizon to horizon. I think they go North to South.