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Between the two satellites colliding, and the mysterious fireball that zoomed over Dallas, the final frontier certainly proved to be interesting last week. I was amazed at all the satellites and pieces of debris that are orbiting around out there in outer space. Due to the secret military installations up there, I don’t think anyone really knows exactly how many satellites are up there. But from what I’ve read, there are at least over 3,000 of them, and over 9,000 pieces of debris up there. That’s a lot of stuff floating around out there! I just hope NASA gets the hint those two satellites that collided gave us all, and makes sure they have a really good contingency plan for any future collisions.

I did read where the European Space Agency hopes to clean up space junk. The Agency intends to increase information for scientist about all those satellites and debris orbiting out there in outer space. Other experts are also pondering the problem of what to do with all that space junk. And according to the new Thursday morning, Texas astronomers think they may have found two pieces of the meteor that zoomed over Dallas last Sunday.

I think keeping better track of, and cleaning up some of that debris is a damn good idea. We’ve polluted the earth so badly already it’s positively shameful. I would hate to think that we humans have learned nothing from the effects of that pollution, and are now going to continue treating outer space the same way we have planet earth. And what good is it going to do to clean up the planet, if we wind up obliterated because of the debris we left up in space? Though, that may all be a moot point to a lot of people if some pickup size meteor with a tougher consistency than concrete zooms through towards our atmosphere.

All the exciting happenings in outer space last week did lead me to wondering about something else. If there really are little wide eyed dudes out there abducting people, where in hell are all their satellites and space debris? Hardcore non believers can rejoice in the belief I’ve just proven the little wide eyed dudes don’t exist. True believers can counter act that by providing both logical, and illogical reasons why we’ve not seen any of their satellites and/or space debris. For instance, a true believer could speculate they come from a galaxy so far far away, we’ve never seen their satellites and/or space debris through our best telescope, or on our longest space journey. And if they had them, we will probably never see or find their weapons of mass destruction until it is too late.

That may all become a moot point though if something much larger than a pickup, and with an iron consistency comes moving a bit more slowly towards our atmosphere. Although it worked for them in the movie, let’s hope the reality is NASA has a better contingency plan for that kind of thing happening than they did in Armageddon. Last week’s awesome happenings in outer space had made me realize that just as we have on earth, humanity may have also sown the seeds of its own destruction in the vast regions of that final frontier.