Worry not, Consuela will soon be sent up by Virgin Galactic, they just need to fix they rockets first.

Goku will save us.

Oh no humankind is doomed!

This is so typical of the human race, you know the conversation went something like:

"If we put loads of satellites up there, what happens when they become useless and dangerous?"

"So?"

"Good point, I hadn't thought of that!"

Replace "So?" with "We'll be dead by then."

Who cares about that, I'm pissed if I can't access esr n shit on my mobile phone for the entire 15 minute travel from library to home.
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Terrifying 1st world problems.

the only reason they are starting to think about space junk is because missions are starting to be more dangerous and insurances are more expensive than the projects themselves

don't worry. the swiss are already cleaning it up.

Only their own rubbish :/

ye? selfish bastards

Do everyone's work or your selfish is selfish

Is it too much to ask for the swiss to wipe my ass c'mon now

That, and we'll likely scorch the Earth beforehand.

Damn. Some people really should be sent on a one-way-trip to space.

straight to uranus

Leave earth? Where would we go?

to uranus lelelelelle

The van allen belt is even worse, so much radiation nothing alives can pass. Earth is kind of a prison planet. Yet, after this age ends, which probably wont take much more thanks to the nuclear plants and other stupid shit humans have been doing, or the pole shift and ice age, when everything resets if human survives.

Which probably will do due to being so many of us, as always it will reset from caverns high in the mountains, where the only clean air will be breathen and the rock acts as radiation shilds, cause when the pole shit happens the magnetic shield protecting us from space/sun rays goes weird for some time, just being outside too much time will kill you.

If in the next age, man is able to value exploration more than ego, then maybe we will figure out how to get out of this rock.

And then the universe is going to expand too far or crunch in on itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4OnQpwjkc

BTW, not sure if you were joking about the Van Allen Belt but its not that bad, only if you orbit inside the strongest part of it.

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I wanted to leave so bad.. fk

thats it, im gonna make my own killdozer rocket

nah, make your own SpaceShipTwo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vlOgN_3QQ

If humanity can survive past the point of internal combustion than travelling to other planets will be possible. I mean, we've landed on the moon, are about to conclude a decade long mission to land on an asteroid etc. 'Space junk' won't be a big issue to get around in the scheme of things.

Corage, to post such a thread on ESR! Sr Wallace! the Pendragon!

Btw if you manage gravitational field you don't need to worry about it.

We need a Space Janitor company to send up and mop the shit out of space.

Wait until the gays get their own space ship and set up a colony in the largest gaping crater on the moon with a reverse sky scraper going into the crater disappearing into the ground. It will be the epicenter of all gayness throughout the universe. Like Mordor but instead of black majick.... faggotry.

See you there : *

how will they colonise it if they are gay?

they rely on us, the breeders.

recruiting.

lesbians can have black babies.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/02/blac...22180.html

reminds me of the movie WALL-E

No internet, no leave earth.

they get faster internet to space than i do here - 600mb down lasers and shit

You don't Interstellar do you?

Well, I just got back from a 2 weeks stay on planet Bwallallahab III, to play Quake 26 for a while, with some friends I met there.
It's in the Andromeda Galaxy, a little to the right from the center from our point of view.
They're like 400 years ahead of us. Pretty cool.
So I plugged my biochip USB 52.0 (Brain Ultimate Triple Tuning Pro Linked Unified Graphics 9500XT) into their mainframe and played like 10 days non-stop. Which was very cool because there was no one bothering me, if I shouldn’t do ancient ‘useful things’ like work or go to bed or try to look decent for my neighbours or so.
This was in a bar, where I was allowed to smoke and drink like crazy, because they actually have stuff there which I like, which isn't bad for my health, unlike here on Earth.
The coolest weapons were there for the takin', like the Wapp Shapper, the Quappledrapple quarkdriver and my favorite, the poisonous exploding tittie DD railblaster 2.0.
Come to think of it, they also have mighty pretty chicks there. The ugly ones have finally gone extinct, and are only still shown between various other stuffed known dinosaurs, in a museum. (My friends there told me this is mostly for stimulating the modern day chicks not to get ugly).
Yes, I think we could learn a lot from them.
But no, the space junk in Earth orbit didn't really bother me tbh, I flew right through.