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yonder

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28. Sadly, this is another example of humans doing what humans do
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 08:46 PM
Apr 2019

Fuck things up just because they can, I guess. Worry about it later, if any worry is to be given. Didn't the Chinese try the same thing several years ago with about the same results?

Satellites for GPS, communication, observation, agriculture, etc. all could suffer because of this bonehead move. Maybe we'll be forced to relearn and start using old school land surveying and navigation techniques. What about aviation? It's like we're slowly being driven back to the ground to where we started by ill-advised pursuits, and we haven't been treating Mother Earth to damn well either. No time for soaring when we've got military-corpo-industrial stonehumpers driving our bus to oblivion.

I'm just sick of this "Hold my beer, watch this" mentality. Lowest fucking common denominator is what we seem to be striving for.



end o'rant.

Well, there goes the neighborhood Roy Rolling Apr 2019 #1
Kessler Syndrome... Girard442 Apr 2019 #2
Gravity. Ilsa Apr 2019 #14
Clooney's character was great. Girard442 Apr 2019 #21
reminded me of the movie d_r Apr 2019 #3
Wasn't that the basic plot of the movie Gravity? OnlinePoker Apr 2019 #4
YES - the very first thing I thought of! bullwinkle428 Apr 2019 #18
And the space shuttle! Ilsa Apr 2019 #25
Weird that they would have the shuttle there (I forgot about it) OnlinePoker Apr 2019 #26
Yeah, but it works for the movie as Ryan Ilsa Apr 2019 #27
Space: The New Frontier DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #5
In the 1970s, there was this NBC TV sci-fi comedy called Quark. Dave Starsky Apr 2019 #7
Deploy the Space Baggies! eShirl Apr 2019 #12
Earth May Care About Our Mess... jayfish Apr 2019 #8
Probably done by design DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #9
Given our behaviors, I can definitely see reasons to quarantine us. roamer65 Apr 2019 #20
This was the first thing I thought of when it was first announced BUT yaesu Apr 2019 #6
Nothing like 'progress.' elleng Apr 2019 #10
in other words... Javaman Apr 2019 #11
We have tested similar anti-satellite missiles BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #29
I already knew we were stupid. LOL nt Javaman Apr 2019 #32
To landfillity and beyond! Purrfessor Apr 2019 #13
Easy fix... Ferrets are Cool Apr 2019 #15
Even if what they said was true that the junk will fall back to the earth, ISN"T THAT A PROBLEM! karynnj Apr 2019 #16
No. jayfish Apr 2019 #17
Thanks! karynnj Apr 2019 #23
Immolated? What, no proper spreading of the ashes in the Ganges? And the other bits? erronis Apr 2019 #31
Destroying the earth just isn't enough IronLionZion Apr 2019 #19
Cleanup in orbit 7. truthisfreedom Apr 2019 #22
Thread winner mahina Apr 2019 #24
Sadly, this is another example of humans doing what humans do yonder Apr 2019 #28
India is the fourth country to do this BlueFlorida Apr 2019 #30
Can't say I know who "no one" is but I do recall some squawking when China did it. yonder Apr 2019 #33
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