Tell that to putin elon and xi

The people who control this kind of stuff are a bunch of selfish slobs. Put it 'out there' and it's no longer their problem, let the future generations deal with it..... how ignorant!!

Several runaway satellites have crashed in Australia over the years, all out in the bush away from civilization, so far.

We are hurting ourselves and the future generations

What goes up, must come down. Hopefully we won;'t get too hurt when it does.

The countries that put that rubbish up there should be made to clean it up! It is disgusting how they leave trash all over the planet & in space and just don't care.

sadly, we are polluting. the outer space, and now we find they are leaving things on the moon.

I have always been concerned about space junk falling to earth, but no-one else seems to care one iota.

It's getting crowded up there. There are over 8,000 satellites hanging out and an average of 8 a day being launched.

Most of what is up there are flecks of paint and bolts and nuts all very small under 2 cm in size. The things to worry about are the intact satellites and Space Station if they get struck they will explode into so many pieces of junk that they will eventually remove all human made orbital objects and leave it impossible to use much modern technology so your GPS's will be as useful as tits on a bull and very little in the way of OS Communication will remain. On the up side eventually the molecules of metallic objects that have burnt up on reentry will eventually settle on the planet and leave a very fine layer across the entire planet and it will be small no one will actually notice. What they will notice is big lumps of Carbon Fibre that hit the ground but even then most will be lying there for months if not years before anyone notices them.

We have had a few warnings. There seemed much excitement when one of China's earlier space objects managed to fall in West Australia. So far most have been far outside of large cities. Will we get serious when it comes crashing into some of our highly populated areas?

Send the robots up to clean the junky stuff up.

I dread to think how much is up there,and the magnitude of it all. I don't think that the governments/ countries or scientists could even begin to explain the ramifications involved. I suppose we can't leave it up their. Bad enough we pollute the planet,let alone the space surrounding it. Guess there wasn't a contingently plan for the crap we let behind when they first thought of space travel.

shoot it into the sun

I don't have a much information about it

Somehow, I don't think there is too much to worry about radioactive poisoning. You're more likely just to see one of the larger things burn up on re-entry. Pato Lo Duck s correct. Get the google going and look up your question from where ever you are. As well as EOS, try NASA. They know all kinds of stuff.

Look up EOS, Electro Optic Systems, an Australian company, Andrew. When you find their website, click on ‘What we do’ then click on ‘Space’, then click on ‘Space sustainability’. You might learn something new…

most people dont think about it and take everything for granted

We polluted the earth. Now we are polluting space. Man will find a way to ruin everything given the chance! I wish we could go back about 60 years and start over without all the technology making a mess of things. We were better off with less. We managed with four TV channels and getting up to change them. There wasn't much need with less choices. I could even wind my car windows up and down and pay less for a car. There are so many bells and whistles on everything that it's all out of my pay range. How do other people buy new vehicles? The only good paying job seems to be selling drugs to young kids! What a mess we've made! Simple lives; being poor wasn't any more stressful than now, and we had a good life and used simple things to create fun and spend family time together. We didn't all go and do our own thing. You can tell I'm old and tired of this mess and ready to go to a much more beautiful place with peace and love!

Need to clean up space as much as possible

I am not surprised there is such a lack of consideration for everything these days.

I know, it's bad enough we trash our earth now we trash the outer space around us. There has been a solution promoted by Australia of a recycling space machine to capture the rubbish and recycle it.

We weren’t satisfied polluting our planet, those very smart (dummies) thought let’s mess up the atmosphere around our planet!!

I think I heard/ read somewhere that there was a group who would go up to space and use a cargo net to grab some of the junk and bring it back to earth

NASA should start a group of space janitors.

What is needed is for someone to invent a giant "vacuum cleaner" that will work in vacuum!

I tried to take in what radioactive molten metal raining down on us would feel like APB... but most of it went over my head.

pollution by the communist chinese

Who knows, it's all about learning how we can clean up the mess that has been made, lean by our mistakes and try to make a better world to live in?

Sounds like a buisness opportunity, for someone with a means to clean it all up.

I get hit by junk every time I pass a KFC or a Macca’s…….and loving it……lol

As Ron White would say: Put on your helmet Mother!

There is a lot up there

no matter how this is painted, it isn't good

I'm rich, I'm rich! I'm independently wealthy! I'm a gree-eedy little miser!....uh....this stuff IS worth a lot of money, right?

Ok. Very interesting info😀😀😀Edited 06-Mar-24 10:19am

Another topic to be aware of. Thank you APB.

I agree with you Beverley we humans are to blame for the mess we make of the beauty that surrounded us.

I have never seen any coming back and I guess its just a way of live these days

fun to watch on a very clear night with no lights from land within 300 miles, and with the new moon,,,,but on the bright side, we are on the verge of extinction, and sooner or later all that space crap will be gone,, and all the unrewardia surveys that don't pay anymore,,, he he he,, A, maybe you should start selling space junk helmuts on TEMU, after this discussion there will be a run on them 🤣Edited 06-Mar-24 08:42am

YES, us humans are the worst beings of all. We have ruined Gods beautiful creation the earth. And we will continue Ruining the earth until Jesus comes to save us 😀

Maybe they will start a recycle business and reuse the good bits

Now they want to leave our dead bodies (incinerated) up there. We pollute enough without going that far.

Almost all of it is small, so it will burn up. Space junk, meteorites, etc. are falling from orbit all the time and nobody notices it - "shooting stars" are about the only thing you'd see. Very rarely does anything make it back to the Earth's surface, and that is usually done on purpose with bigger things aimed to land in a remote area of the sea. Although, there was once some space junk that scattered small pieces across part of Australia, so the state government sent NASA a joke police fine for littering.

I blame E.T., the little bugger.

That is alot of space junk, if doesn't burn up before hits earth hope it does not hurt anything.

Whatever has happened to our carefree days of "Pennies from Heaven" lala, lala, la la. BOOM!?Edited 06-Mar-24 07:34am

And maybe some effect on climate change? Everything else has been blamed!

another pollution

At 90 I could not care less

CATASTROPHIC

omg - we are so idiotic

Looks pretty messy. Humans are very good at creating messes... here and up there. The pollies are not doing anything about it. Tho I did read an article recently about the dangers of space junk and the concerns there are about it. So something needs to be done or we will suffer in the long run.Edited 06-Mar-24 06:47am

And they call humans intelligent geez.

Yes! It's true! Our atmosphere consists mainly with hard junk, waste products of man-made destructive materials. We are already reaping the (ill) benefits of such short-sighted acts of humans. Elnino effect, temperature rise, melting Antarctic ice, floods, storms and Bush fires are all part and parcel of these acts and it's very 🧣 scary!

They don't care

Man created things that they con NOT control, and will come back and bite us in the bum. The GOOD BOOK says , "The world as we know it will come to an end. No one knows when, but the Almighty God

If an environmental disaster happens (oil spill...) the company is liable. If you can afford to go to space you can afford to clean up after yourself. What you take up, you bring back. How to clean it up? No idea, but Wall-E comes to mind. We have 'no littering' fines on earth, so fine them. The clean up bill will be in the mail. It was inevitable we would spread our destruction further.

HM,INTERESTING

That’s interesting….how can we send bad people up there…less damage to fallout! 😂

Is it a viable option to send it beyond Earth - to burn up somewhere else?

I think this has something to do with climate change,all that debri is not good for the environment

Wherever CAPITALISM goes (even into space) it still makes an ENVIRONMENTAL MESS!

It is dangerous to other space craft as some of it is like a speck of dust but causes huge problems. Maybe they need a huge vacuum type space craft to suck it up and then bring it back to earth. Some of it will fall to earth and burn up over time of course. Wherever man goes he makes a mess though.

Have never really given it a thought.

Oh wow