re: #237 BBev

With a cloud of space junk,if the globe is covered with this shit how can we ever get off the ground and discover new worlds to land on and inhabit, If we as humans are to survive we must go out and settle new worlds.

Stuff hits the shuttle on every mission, and the ISS all the time. Most of the stuff up there is tiny, paint flecks, etc.

There are maybe 100,000 pieces of space junk in low Earth orbit large enough to do damage. But space is big. Picture LEO space as the surface of an imaginary sphere. This sphere has a surface area of about 240 million square miles. That averages out to 1 piece every 2400 square miles - about the size of Delaware.

I’d take my chances.