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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
Should the world not be putting more effort into fixing some the industrial mess we've caused here at home before making more mess beyond our little planet?
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Whenever I see how much garbage we have put into low earth orbit that we have no practical way to get rid of, it makes me ill. We are tracking more than 30,000 pieces that we can see from earth, it’s estimated there are 200,000 or 300,000 pieces bigger than 1 cm and perhaps a million more smaller than that. As far as I know, they have to alter the space station orbit periodically to avoid some of it.