Space Pollution - Part 2

Space Shuttle

In the November 30, 2010 article "Space Pollution" the Judiciary Report warned of the ills of pollution and debris in space and the prospect of it worsening, due to commercial space travel. The article was derived from an unpublished item I wrote weeks earlier.

Two weeks later, on December 14, 2010, NASA announced, in conjunction with the U.S. Federal Government, via a new RAND report entitled "Confronting Space Debris" they wish to create a "super fund" to clean up space pollution.

Hey, knock yourselves out *cough* just don't look for any donations. As I see it, this isn't my mess, because that kite I released could not have gotten that far.

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Superfund proposed for space junk cleanup

Space Superfund Needed to Clean Mounting Orbital Trash

New Report Calls for Creation of "Space Superfund" to Clean Up Junk

How Far Has Space Travel Really Come?

Space programs all over the world like to brag about their innovations, but what have they really accomplished. They brag about putting a man on the moon and photographing far away planets. Big woo! Why hasn't anyone put a man on the sun, tell me that? Kidding.

Obama Plays Scientist

U.S. President Barack Obama (center)

U.S. President Barack Obama has overruled accomplished scientists and astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, in dictating what NASA's space agenda should be.

It is a known fact in intelligence circles that the FBI and NSA illegally spies on domestic and foreign scientists, obtaining unlawfully made advance copies of their work, using it to formulate and compile reports for the White House and select members of Congress, hoping to keep them ahead of the curve.

This, however, doesn't not make the President a scientist. Much like the budget breaking, dictatorial health care bill that passed last month, does not make you a doctor. Someone needs to come back down to earth, pardon the pun.

STORY SOURCE: Neil Armstrong vs. Obama

New Planet Discovered

Video: Found: Firm Place to Stand Outside Solar System - The Associated Press

Astronomers have discovered a new planet they've named "Corot-7b" whose lava like surface gives it the appearance, of well, hell.

sphere of burning gas

Found: Firm place to stand outside solar system

WASHINGTON — Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there's a firm place to stand — if only it weren't so broiling hot...

"It's as close to something like the Earth that we've found so far. It's just a little too close to its sun."

So close that its surface temperature is more than 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit, too toasty to sustain life. It circles its star in just 20 hours, zipping around at 466,000 mph. By comparison, Mercury, the planet nearest our sun, completes its solar orbit in 88 days.

"It's hot, they're calling it the lava planet," Hatzes said...This is a major discovery in the field of trying to find life elsewhere in the universe, said outside expert Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution. It was the buzz of a conference on finding an Earth-like planet outside our solar system, held in Barcelona, Spain, where the discovery was presented Wednesday morning. The find is also being published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The planet is called Corot-7b. It was first discovered earlier this year. European scientists then watched it dozens of times to measure its density to prove that it is rocky like Earth. It's in our general neighborhood, circling a star in the winter sky about 500 light-years away. Each light-year is about 6 trillion miles.

Four planets in our solar system are rocky: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars...

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