This blog contains posts and comments written by students in Dr. Tufte's economics classes at Southern Utah University.
4/15/2005
Space Junk
I saw on T.V. the other night that some people are planning to go in to space and salvage all the “space junk” that is orbiting around the earth and recycle it. They say there are massive amounts of junk flying around earth from discarded shuttle parts to abandoned satellites. They are also talking about dismantling the international space station. This leads me to wonder, we have trashed the earth, are we destined to trash every place we go. If we establish a base on the moon will they have to plan for a land fill there too?
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3 comments:
-1 on Rex's post for a spelling error.
Wow, does this seem like a bad idea. I can't see any possible way this could make money unless you could convince the government to pay you to go clean up a limitless, lifeless, vacuum, from which everything is burned up if it tries to escape.
Dr. Tufte said:
"Wow, does this seem like a bad idea. I can't see any possible way this could make money unless you could convince the government to pay you to go clean up a limitless, lifeless, vacuum, from which everything is burned up if it tries to escape."
These are my sentiments exactly. What's more: what could possibly be the benefit of undertaking such an expensive mission? Space debris isn't hurting me.
Well ... this isn't without benefits. All that junk has to be tracked to keep it from running into expensive satellites.
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