{"id":202,"date":"2008-04-15T03:36:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/202"},"modified":"2008-04-15T03:36:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T08:36:34","slug":"space-is-full-of-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/202","title":{"rendered":"Space is Full of Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/378713\/space-is-full-of-crap\">Space is Full of Crap<\/a>.  Literally.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The European Space Agency has just released images showing all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51 years of launching stuff since Sputnik. That&#8217;s about 6,000 satellites up there\u2014of which only 800 remain operational\u2014plus thousands of other objects from launches and accidents. According to their mindblowing simulations things are getting a lot worse:<\/p>\n<p>About 50 percent of all trackable objects are due to in-orbit explosion events (about 200) or collision events (less than 10).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space is Full of Crap. Literally. The European Space Agency has just released images showing all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51 years of launching stuff since Sputnik. That&#8217;s about 6,000 satellites up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/202\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}