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Although space junk may seem trivial,it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over everyday life. Apparently Nasa has just been throwing it out the window into our atmosphere, which is causing a gigantic problem. Some experts say there are just some things like satellites they cannot take back to earth. They say that they would only do it in in rare cases. If they take the things up there how come they can't take back it down to earth. They are trying to find a way to bring the trash back.

In Kindred, Octavia Butler combines elements of science fiction and historical fiction to create a new genre. The science fiction aspect allows Butler’s main character, Dana, to travel back to a southern plantation in the 1800s. The historical fiction part of the novel makes the story extremely believable and realistic. Butler uses these two genres to expose the harsh realities of life for an African-American on an antebellum plantation in the 1800s, as well as to highlight that similar prejudices continue to exist in California in the 1970s. Kindred does not fit neatly into one specific genre because it incorporates elements from both science fiction and historical fiction which makes it into a new category.

In the article’ Did NASA fake the moon landing” It said”The documents that even when Earth passes through a particularly intense meteor shower, nothing happens to spacecraft. The November 1999 Leonid meteor storm, the most intense since the dawn of the space age, dramatized this point. Not one of seven­ hundred operational satellites was damaged during the Leonid meteoroid onslaught” ( Villard 48). This important piece of evidence because people say that the micrometeoroids would have sandblasted the spacecraft but even when the earth passed nothing happened to the space.

The United States of America relies heavily on its ability to operate in the most contested and most undetermined domain, space. The space domain is one of the newest domains that the United States finds itself contending in, desperate to combat the unknown or unforeseen. The battle ground is the contentious and hugely unknown areas that float above the heavens. The soldiers the best and brightest engineers and physicists that the world has ever known. The front lines are the exponentially long math equations that produce precise launch equations that place objects in orbit around our Earth. Those objects are satellites and their functions are as numerous as the varieties of their uses multiplied by the nations that own them. They control everything from the precise time that is printed on your Starbucks receipt to the exact location that a Tomahawk cruise missile destroys its target. Space based technology is interwoven throughout our government, the military, the U.S. economy, but it’s also provides a level of peace and security to the American people. Even though the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 strictly prohibits the militarization of space, the U.S. Department of Defense has a strategic obligation to protect the U.S. Space Program from its near peer adversaries because of the impacts on the global economy and to the security of United States citizens.

“Dave, my mind is going, Hal says forlornly “I can feel it. I can feel it”. Nicholas Carr starts off his article with this line from the movie A space Odyssey basically using that specific line to unfold his argument saying that as over the years he can feel his mind deteriorate, no not because he’s getting old but because the usage and expand of using google has lead him to taking the easy way out which is followed by becoming lazier and lazier when doing or looking up certain things. Yes, he stated that the internet can be a big advantage for us, but defaults follow behind it also, it’s so quick to come up with a book online or come up with facts in two seconds which we have become so accustomed to doing instead of taking the time to go to

Out of the Blue, a novel written, and published by Canadian journalist Jan Wong, explores an in-depth perception of the truth behind the debilitating disease known as depression and how her career kick started the diagnosis. The book, which is divided into five parts, shares the timeline of Wong’s career, depression and life-style from beginning to end. Out of the Blue covers the good, the bad and the ugly sides of a journalistic career. Its key points definitely aim to crush the wrenching stigma surrounding mental illness along with sharing various coping methods.

Jim Sciutto conducted a 1-hr documentary on the inevitable war in space. Sciutto interviewed more than ten national security, defense and high-ranking military personnel to include the entire chain of command for space warfare. Sciutto explains that American (citizens, military, and government) depends on our satellites every day. However, our adversaries are targeting America's satellites and are preparing to disarm America from her satellites usage with weapon systems such as lasers, kamikaze satellites, and even kidnapper satellites.

Bessie Pearl Pennycutt may have deeper feelings for Cam Campbell, builder of her house, than she ever intended. Thane Campbell’s favorite hen, Mona Lisa, has disappeared, and Deputy Sheriff Bobby Carl Rodgers stumbled upon a corpse during a trek into the woods to answer nature’s call.

The European Space Agency estimates that there are more than 600,000 trash objects larger than one centimeter in diameter floating in space. A golf ball is still floating somewhere in space after it was hit from the international space station by Michail Tjurin, a Russian astronaut, as part of an advertisement for a Canadian sports company in 2006.

For just a moment, let me take you back to 1976. Television in color was starting to dominate the market, cars were measured in gallons to the mile rather than miles to the gallon, and the thought of anything better than Pong was but a pipe dream. Also, people had a disgusting taste in fashion. Have you seen what they wore back then? Today is September 21st, 2016, forty years later. What was only possible in science fiction then is everyday life now. We carry a mini supercomputer in our pockets. We have glasses that project holograms that we can interact with. We even have smart toilets with built in deodorizers! So, what caused this gargantuan change in the way we live in a measly forty years? A large, beige, clunky device called the Apple

Satellites orbiting the Earth today as a result of the developed technology give us GPS, television, weather data, and rapid international communications. However, the consequences were also immense. The space race cost many lives and billions of dollars. The Apollo program alone cost $25 billion.

Today, speeding past our Earth ten times faster than a bullet (tweentribune), are millions of pieces of space junk ranging in size from flecks of paint to entire Satellites (NASA). To most people this does not sound like much of a problem, but even a fleck of paint moving 17,500 miles per hour or more can cause significant damage to spacecraft and space walkers alike. As more collisions take place and as new items enter the atmosphere the statistical probability of a collision will increase. Eventually, the probability of a collision will become so high that it will be unsafe to enter space from Earth (NASA). Now, as discussion of colonizing Mars intensifies, space junk has a new way of spreading and clogging up more of the universe. When humans colonize Mars they will

Space junk is a very important because it can cause harm, not only to NASA, but to Earth and everyone on Earth. Scientists are trying their best to find a way to stop it from doing this, but with people that are as smart as them in one room trying to make a decision is not easy.

The science-fiction film genre serves as an excellent medium for examining shifting power structures, social paranoia and Cold War politics during the 1950s. A number of films released during this period, including: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Them (1954) and Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958), are particularly symptomatic of the social and political atmosphere of the time. These films navigate not only narrative based issues such as the threat of aliens and science experiments gone wrong; but also wider issues of the time, such as the Cold War, changes in the US film industry, urbanisation, politics, the growing power of women and most significantly, social concern about nuclear energy.

The space debris population consists mostly of explosion fragments, but also includes operating and expended satellites; mission-related objects such as shrouds, clamps, and