Kessler syndrome
As if the human race doesn’t have enough calamitous threats to deal with on the planet earth. We have a catastrophic situation circling our planet that no one ever considered when the space program’s first came on the scene. Some day it will make all of our other challenges miniscule. The layman’s term for this impending dilemma will be caused by what is called space debris or junk.
In 1978 a NASA scientist named Donald Kessler began to study what the disposition was with all of the discarded/scrapped or abandoned material that had accumulated from space missions and was circling the earth from all of the rocket, satellites and other paraphernalia that was left to linger around the globe.
When science began their space projects no one ever considered what a hazards all of the discarded material would eventually become.
In Kessler’s 2014 study, it was estimated there were about 2,000 commercial and government satellites orbiting the Earth. The excess material or debris generated by putting all of these objects in space accumulated into about 300,000 pieces of space junk. Sizes of the junk range from as big as a matchbook to the size of a small cars.
It was not a severe problem until these leftover pieces of debris began running into one another at 17,500 miles an hour. When two out of control objects hitting each-other at that speed; all of a sudden there are 400 pieces. When the 400 pieces hit one another, there are 10,000 pieces; and so on. Before we know it, there are close to a 500,000 flying missiles ramming into one another. This game of Dogeums and their flying missiles has created a very great danger to the functional satellites that operate everything from our cell phones, GPS guided instruments, computers and all the toys mankind has become addicted to using in this electronic age.
You think it is a problem now when you go into the Golden Arches and their computer is down and the clerk has to make change for 5 dollars? Most of the time they have to take their shoes off after they get past ten; just wait until the entire planet is shutdown when these major collisions occur?
That has always been a problem with science. In many cases they have not look past what their endeavours to recognize what the long range effects or the downsides their advancement would generate. Many of them have created Frankenstein and we had to live with it.
If science did forecast such a massive problem; would they have continued to pursue their course of action? I say YES; let’s deal with it later.
This almost unrepairable situation is just another example of the human race trying to eradicat itself.
In my opinion the innovation of satellites for use in electronic advancements was a great idea but what has space exploration or landing on the moon given the world except bragging rights to the USA for being the first one to land there.
Who really cares if their is life on another planet? Stephen Hawking says there is and I agree with him. He also says we do not want them to come to Earth because they will wipe us out. We have enough problems with our planet we can not control let alone trying to defend against extraterrestrials.
Do these nutty scientists really think that SOMEDAY, after we destroy Mother Earth we are going to inhabit another planet? It is just another way for our government to piss away good money. Three trillion dollars plus later, what have we come away with???
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All of the outer space lasers and military weapons that are standing at the ready waiting for some crackpot to push the button is not what I would consider an advancement for the good of mankind.
The Atom Bomb was created and use by the USA under duress and necessity but now has become the leading threat to mankind. Example of another necessary evil not knowing what to do with it.
As preposterous as it sounds, my solution to eliminating all of these deadly and dangerous pieces of space shrapnel/junk flying around is. All of the major powers to come together; construct a giant net (something like a fisherman net) or a very large space vacuum cleaner, attach it to a remote controlled rocket; blast it off into space and little at a time collect all of this debris, dump it in the ocean; that is if it is not radioactive and will kill all of the sea life.
If the major world powers continue to procrastinate in solving this problem; there may come a day when it is too late to correct.
The Kessler syndrome is a real problem and one that should not be shoved in the corner by the people that created it.
Call me collect.
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