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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Space Dirt
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Earth's orbital pollution, shown on different scales:




Each at least as big as this drawing of earth, some 7000 pieces of space debris - operating and dead satellites, explosion fragments from rocket engines, garbage bags and frozen sewage dumped by astronauts, shrapnel from anti-satellite weapons tests, 34 nuclear reactors and their fuel cores, and escaped wrench and a toothbrush - now orbit our world. Only about 5 percent are working satellites. By means of extraordinary data recording and analysis, military computers identify and then track each of these 7,000 objects (over 10cm in diameter), in order to differentiate the debris from a missile attack, for which we may be thankful. Space is not totally self-cleaning; some of the stuff will be up there for centuries, endangering people and satellites working in space as well as inducing spurious astronomical observations. The risk of a damaging collision is perhaps 1 in 500 during several years in orbit. The total volume of debris has doubled about every 5 years; further testing of space weapons will accelerate the trashing of space. The consequences (as of 0:00 hours Universal time, July 1987) are shown in these phenomenal and disheartening micro / macro images, as a multiplicity of 7000 dots adds to the overall pattern of orbital pollution. Most of the debris is relatively close to the earth; a more distant view shows a ring formed by geo-synchronous satellites. Not shown are some 50,000 smaller objects (size between 1cm and 10cm), as well as 10 billion to 100 billion paint chips now in orbit.

:shitstorm:


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Re: Space Dirt [Re: exclusive58]
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interesting  :confused:

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Re: Space Dirt [Re: exclusive58]
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how the hell are all the borders so defined?

I didn't know space dust corresponded to politics.

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DoctorJ said:
how the hell are all the borders so defined?



Its more of a schematic representation of reality, not an actual picture of it....


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