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Old 14-02-2009, 12:16 PM
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A little hypocritical ... perhaps ?

Hi Glen & All,

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Which crash created the most debris?
"A leading space scientist has calculated that Tuesday's collision between an Iridium communications satellite and the defunct Soviet-era Cosmos 2251 spacecraft expended a great deal more destructive energy than China's infamous anti-satellite missile test did in January 2007."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...asat-test.html
The Chinese are concerned that the "massive debris of the satellite collision might pose grave but controllable danger to other spacecraft" and that it "poses a threat to China's solar synchronous satellites on the orbit" ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10809710.htm

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10806839.htm

Could be construed as a tad hypocritical, perhaps ...


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Today's APOD has a diagram of the two paths. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...es_agi_big.jpg
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Your right there Les they are hypocritical after they destroyed 2 in low earth orbit back in 2008 which caused international outrage.

The Joint space operations centre was monitoring 14000 pieces of space junk down to the sizes of 2 inchs but after that collision has gone up to 18000 now more after that collision.

Now there worried ...poor buggers...Cheers Kev.
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Old 22-02-2009, 06:41 PM
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How do you pick a path with the shuttle where you can fly with some security.

I think we need to invent some sort of giant hoover to clean up our mess and fire it of into the sun.
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Old 22-02-2009, 09:29 PM
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Hey Ric I heard that every time the shuttle goes up into low earth orbit which is the realm of the ISS and Hubble that they have to manouvre around the debris.

Its very scary and dangerous stuff up there and also they use the vast expance of space to gamble with that there not going to get hit, But one day i would hate to imagine.

For an enviroment that you would think was pristine its just a junkyard sad but true.

It shows it all in the series THE UNIVERSE the edge of space.

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Old 22-02-2009, 09:34 PM
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Hi Kev, I haven't heard of that series. is it on DVD?

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Old 22-02-2009, 09:58 PM
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It is but its expensive to buy over 100 bickies.
The series was shown on the history channel on the pay on sunday nights.
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Old 22-02-2009, 10:22 PM
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Hmmm, must investigate pay TV. There seems to be a lot of good stuff I'm missing.
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Old 25-02-2009, 10:47 PM
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Hmmm, must investigate pay TV. There seems to be a lot of good stuff I'm missing.
Season 3 should be coming soon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_(TV_series)
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Old 26-02-2009, 08:24 AM
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Season 3 should be coming soon

SEASON THREE!!!!!
Haven't even seen season one yet.
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