ISS crew take to escape capsules in space junk alert

[J3L2404]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17497766

[Sephr]

Planetes (hard sci-fi manga and anime) is becoming closer to reality every day. We need to address space debris now before we end up like that.

[xatax → Sephr]

In case anyone else was unfamiliar with this, I looked it up[1]:

> Planetes [...] is a Japanese hard science fiction manga by Makoto Yukimura. [...] The story revolves around a team of space debris collectors based in the debris ship Toy Box in the year 2075.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

[tommi]

Wikipedia has very good article on space debris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

[jedberg]

The second part of the article was much more interesting, especially the graph at the end.

[xbryanx]

:TODO: @CN - Stop firing missiles at satellites in space.