Every single satellite orbiting Earth, in a single image

[Skywizard]

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Every single satellite orbiting Earth, in a single image


As we gear up for an era where space travel becomes more common thanks to the efforts of companies like Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, territory that was unchartered just a few decades ago could soon become commonplace. Even those of us with no interest in traveling to space have come to rely on The Final Frontier more so than ever before, thanks to an increasing number of services that rely on satellites orbiting the Earth. Cell phones and in-dash navigation systems rely on GPS satellites, Dish and DirecTV obviously use satellite feeds, and satellite communications systems offered by the likes of Inmarsat and Iridium continue to proliferate across various industries. Just how crowded is it getting up there above the Earth’s atmosphere?

The answer: Pretty crowded.

Vala Afshar, chief marketing officer of network infrastructure company Extreme Networks, recently posted a fascinating image on Twitter. Simply put, the image shows every single satellite in space that is currently orbiting Earth, in one graphic.

The picture speaks for itself.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/every-single-satellite-orbiting-earth-single-image-171639687.html


peace...

[aranuk]

It sure took a few rockets to get 'em there eh?

Stan

[linksplatinum]

Wow, that's a lot of space trash floating around out there. lol

[Ellisa]

It makes 'Gravity' more plausible!

[EC1000]

thank god a lot of ETs just "pop in" from other dimensions otherwise they would have a lot of junk to navigate through. :)

[sheme]

Space salvage must be a lucrative occupation from the other dimensions. perhaps they are used as garden ornaments in the future?

[cloud9]

Wow! After seeing this I'm just wondering why the people of earth, all of us, don't have any saying about this. Who the owners of this things have to ask permission to? Is there any organization, agency, entity that regulates this issue?
I'm amazed at how much we don't know, how little we care and how a few people take advantage of our apathy or lack of knowledge because even if we new I know nobody would protest.

We the people are so indifferent to what happens in our own planet, the only home we have that is just amazing we are not in a worst situation.

How can these corporations, governments or agencies do something like this with such impunity? The earth's atmosphere belongs to all of us, not just a few but with much pain I recognize that if people don't care about the poisoning of our skies, the air we breathe, why would they care about something that we can't even see?

Is it even possible to start a campaign to educate the uneducated?

[DeDukshyn]

Hey!! that's two combined images! FAKE! LOL, I'm joking of course, and in this day in age, likely the majority of those are private or corporate, which I find frightening.

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Wow, that's a lot of space trash floating around out there. lol

And those are just the good parts! Real trash not included!

[ghostrider]

I'm ashamed of mankind on earth , not only do we trash our world , now we trash space as well ... If ET could write tickets , they would run out of paper giving us fines for cosmic pollution ... you can always tell where earth humans have been , follow the junk ... another example of the lack of balance ...

[rgray222]

I'm ashamed of mankind on earth , not only do we trash our world , now we trash space as well ... If ET could write tickets , they would run out of paper giving us fines for cosmic pollution ... you can always tell where earth humans have been , follow the junk ... another example of the lack of balance ...

I would think that any advanced extraterrestrials capable of interstellar travel could look back in their history and see an identical photo of their home planet. Unlike many people I have faith in mankind that we will eventually get things right.

Also I hope to God that ETs can't write tickets, we have too much government intervention and control on this planet, we don't need ETs to control behavior (lol).

[Wizard Of Ozark]

Although I agree that we humans do seem to like to s**t where we eat, so to speak... The sizes of the satellites are pretty radically exaggerated, in those pictures, for effect, and there probably is still a lot of space up there, in space... for now!

[Red Skywalker]

Aha, now I see why our planet is called a prison-planet.
More then enough guardians with unknown poisonous technology embedded in it.

[Nick Matkin]

The image looks really bad, but on that scale each satellite is a few are hundred miles across!

For a more realistic scale, imagine a room with a grapefruit in the centre with a couple of thousand viruses orbiting about a foot or so away from it.

(On that scale the Moon is a golf ball about three and a half yards away from the grapefruit, I mean Earth!)

Nick