Maybe this is the Cosmos way of telling Australia to start getting back into the space business.

G'day mates!

Hmm… round here (New Zealand) that would break the traffic regulations. There are others countries that drive on the left side of the road, such as England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland (both parts), Australia, and Japan..

Possibly the problem is that is that since Russia and the USA both drive on the right hand side of the road, then it is a clash of right wing ideologies???

More seriously, the satellite crash decreases the safety of space travellers for many years in the future.

This directly implies. "I did NOT advocate dumping space junk in anyone' back yard.", is actually wrong. He did.

If he says; "…someone else can deal with our problems for a change"; the who else did he mean? Hence my response."

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Man, you're dense.

Read carefully:

1. blow it off into DEEP SPACE
2. let SOMEONE ELSE deal with it.

Know any humans living in deep space?

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I like the idea of a droid with a scoop that maneuvers with a solar sail that can grab debris, change orbit toward the upper atmosphere, pitch the debris and then go back out for more. I would call it either the Roger Clements or Sandy Koufax satellite.

Salacious B. Crumb- since you say I go across other threads, here it is again
Enough said bye

I've accused no-one, and I'd suggest you be very careful when attacking views other across multiple threads.

Actually, Timmy said; "
The foam can then either burn up in earth's atmosphere or have the solar winds blow it off into deep space, where someone else can deal with our problems for a change."

This directly implies. "I did NOT advocate dumping space junk in anyone' back yard.", is actually wrong. He did.

If he says; "…someone else can deal with our problems for a change"; the who else did he mean? Hence my response.

(He also respond it was "This will teach me not to joke on the Internet". In my view, like the country where I live, it is certainly no laughing matter!)

Hence this is why I said; "Timmy is misguided here. It seems alright to dump things back in to the Earth's atmosphere, but doing so is in everyone else's back backyard instead of the country who launched it!"

As to "blaming so and so of this and that", I've blame no one at all – and certainly no you.

As for targeting people across multiple threads is a very dangerous practice. I never made a post on "feb12 4:32pm", nor was Timmy accused of anything in any other thread in Universe Today!

What article of "…feb12 4:32pm" are you talking about, here?

All you seem to be doing is just arguing on esoteric points which are totally irrelevant to the discussion.

"Yo Salacious – I did NOT advocate dumping space junk in anyone' back yard."

Well, no you didn't say that., but certainly defended this kind of position.

Actually, some of the material seems to always make landfall or in the sea. In and near Australia, for example, Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) for the ISS dropped into Australian waters on the 2nd November 2008. Here Ian O'Neil said in the Universe Today article; "ISS Space Junk Re-Entered Without Incident, 550km South of Australia (Updated)";
"…it might seem like a precarious decision by NASA to allow an uncontrolled re-entry of an object as big as the EAS — especially as it was predicted that up to 15 pieces, some as big as 17.5 kg (40 lb), may survive re-entry, hitting the ground at 100 mph "

Or on the 15th October 2008; Nancy's Universe Today Article "18-Year-Old Rocket Motor Found in Australian Outback" where;
"A solid rocket motor casing from a commercial U.S. Delta 2 launch vehicle was found inAustralia, nearly 18 years after it reentered. "

Or Ian O'Neil 28th March 2008. "The Mysterious Case of Two Spheres Falling to Earth in Australia and Brazil."

Not to mention Skylab in 1973… Better just duck next time I suppose…?

I might not know what I'm talking about, but is it better to bury my head in the ground like the preverbal ostrich?

If space junk burns up in the atmosphere, all it does is make a pretty meteor for somebody. If it goes off into deep space, the odds of it hitting anything become even less than in LEO.

Quote: "If they can't kill you in space, then they'll instead try to kill you on the ground! Either way you're becoming much easier for their future plans of indiscriminate target practice for annihilation. Just like throwing rocks from an overpass."

There has to be some one of great stature in the Space community that we can partner up with to start getting something done…. START SOMETHING!
As soon as some one gets killed from Space Crap – NASA will be forced to halt all manned everything which will set us back ANOTHER FORTY YEARS!!!!

The last thing we need is to give all the anti-space, whiner- A-holes REAL ammunition to stop flying in Space at all.

I am willing to deal with just about anything to stay in space on our "course to the Moon and Mars".

From higher taxes to giving up a kidney if need be.
I have several descent ideas I'd like to discuss with some one………. to see if they are feasible
Where do we go from here – and to WHOM??
Any body out there?????

This is why people still think that glove which escaped Gemini 4 during Ed White's spacewalk in 1965 is still circling Earth. It is long gone – but not the myth from people who don't understand orbital mechanics and atmospheric drag.