Tuesday, July 3, 2012

July 3rd Litter Factoid...Space, The Final Fronteer


At my age, still remember when man walked on the moon...fast forward some 40 plus years for today's factoid.  

Did you know that we humans have managed so far to litter outer space with over 18,000 pieces of space garbage (they only count and track pieces larger than four inches)?  That is a LOT OF SPACE JUNK, and maybe the various nations launching stuff into space need to come up with a Litter Control program for outer space.

If you count space litter of less than four inches, NASA estimates there are over 135 million pieces of man-made metal debris orbiting the Earth.  Seems anywhere man goes, litter follows...do your part, and pick up some litter every where you go.

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