»Plastic Island: Space is Filling up with Junk but Elon Musk isn't Telling You That
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Plastic Island: Space is Filling up with Junk but Elon Musk isn't Telling You That
Space debris in Earth's geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). | Image for representation
If Galileo were alive today, he would see not the stars and planets that he saw from his telescope but the millions of pieces of space debris and plastic hanging around in space today.
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In the 17th-century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei looked out into the unknown vastness of space using his ingenious telescope, he saw the sun, the moon, planets, and stars. Had the polymath been looking through the telescope in the year 2021, he perhaps would have been disappointed to find not stars and other 'space oddities' so eulogized by mortals but bits of trash and plastic.