Space Debris Is Now a Big Problem
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- More than half a million pieces of man-made space junk are orbiting the Earth at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour. Even the tiniest pieces have the potential to destroy any of the 1,700 satellites circling the Earth.
Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson joined the Air Force Space Command to see how a growing military and commercial space presence threatens the ubiquitous satellites, which are essential to humanity's digital way of life.
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Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson joined the Air Force Space Command to see how a growing military and commercial space presence threatens the ubiquitous satellites, which are essential to humanity's digital way of life.
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This dude really went to the Pentagon dressed like a skinny James Bond
Prod. by MiB.
James Bond? He looked like an anorexic homeless person to me.
He's a dude?
I agree with all of the statements above.
yea he was dressed like a woman and a dude at the same time....
@happy mass shooting usa What? No they're at a much lower orbit. If something goes wrong with things at that orbit they'll fall back to earth within a couple months or years.
We can’t even clean our own oceans.....yet alone space lol
You turned off everyone
I just thought of the same thing ... we cant't clean our own planet everything is filled with junk and everybody trows junk everywhere, not to mention third world countries are littered with junk in general ... and now we want to clean space ? yeaaaahhh ... no.
@@konstantinstefanov365 it's good the people in general don't think like you... there is balance... some people take care of the oceans some other take care of space debris , some others about junk. That's how it works, just because ur mind is limited to do one thing at a time you can't have the world focus only on one thing.
ie. "we need more money"
@lygophileDon't be pedantic you know what was implied.
english.stackexchange.com/questions/368928/what-does-the-phrase-yet-alone-mean
It is so gratifying looking at a smart interviewer who actually understand the concepts of the subject he is sent to interview
WALL-E where are you?
He was recruited into the SPACE FORCE.
To much garbage in your face? Well theres plenty of space out in space! BNL starliners leaving each day, we'll cleanup the mess while your away.
need to clen up...
Sounds like a job for SPACE FORCE.
Man if only Trump would stay off Twitter.
Haha 👌
or the air force that would be doing this job, dumbass trump doesn't realize the air force controls nasa
MMO Archives i work at US space command and I can confirm that this is false. NASA is an independent agency not under the Air Force. They do use many AF resources and areas for their own use but they are still totally independent from us
@@wyattruehling6344 you work for space command and you don't even know that nasa is part of the air force? no wonder we got our asses handed to us in afghanistan, we have dumbasses calling the shots
Shaggy now doing journalism ? what happened to scooby ?
He actually looks like velma without glasses
Ruh roh shaggy
He's in Washington having some of scoopy snacks.
He lowkey cute tho
I’m going with the Shaggy + Thelma love child. Zoinks!
Did that guy really interview the Secretary of the Air Force (at the Pentagon) with his shirt basically unbuttoned?
Logarhythmic wtf was that smh
My guess is, he showed up wearing a tee shirt and they made him wear the jacket and button down shirt. Probably needed help putting them on.
@@srmj71 He wanted to seduce her.
@@0.1.feb. do you really think he's old enough to be thinking like that? I have my doubts.. ;-)
@@0.1.feb. He wanted to see her Deuces (Boobies), gone WILD!
I like how they got Scott Pilgrim to do the interview
There are solutions to fix space debris but they will cost money, resources and time for them to work.
@john smith hahahahahahah...wait it cost money?!?!?!
There are many solutions not only to fix things in space but here on earth as well. And yes, they will cost money, resources and time for them to work.
With corrupt politicians & cooperations in charge, who are only looking for the quick money, it is unlikely to solve theses issues any time soon. Meanwhile, they're getting worse and worse...
Crazy on a ship of fools...🙄
Poverty can be fixed but it will cost money, resources and time for it to work.
That'll never occur!
Somebody award this comment the noble peace prize
Human are only species in the world that create there own problem then cry about that problem plastic also fall in same category
I don't know. You ever seen two dogs get stuck together?
@satan... "their"
What kind of stupid statement is that? Humans are the only species in the world that can create said problems, so what's your point?
Damn bruh you deleted my comment when I was just spitting facts, where’s your dark lord now douchebag
Not Humans, Western Civilization. Plastic, Fossil Fuel Engines, Nukes, Meat Factories, AI, Capitalism, Communism, all wouldn't be a problem if Western Civilization never existed.
And Space X just launched how many mini satellites?
You wrote that a few months ago and they did over 150 more the past 2 weeks lol-
Space debris, ocean debris, land debris, air debris
Cat debris, dog debris, human debris, fish debris, bird debris
Human debris
I love how america is worried about other countries but they are doing the same thing or ever worse things in space and earth
Like? 😆 love idiots who talk without thinking
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw I'm not indian
@MOONIS MOONIS Vice is part of their propaganda.
@Stinky Piece of Cheese the us is as bad as russia and china so it wont make a difference...
Please feed the jounalist
That's Hamilton wearing a wig.
They want to stop all that debris?Then stop sending so much shit up there that they are later going to destroy!!!!Common sense!!!
Didn’t the interviewer build a nuclear reactor in his garage? I remember watching him talk about that somewhere.
Your right, here is the NBC video on it.
ua-cam.com/video/PINttscIAEo/v-deo.html
@@sacritumble7302 I read David Hahn died from a drug overdose on his wiki page, so search results for his name and cancer.
@@sacritumble7302 The guy I'm thinking of is Taylor Wilson. It's definitely him in the video. Take a look at the description. He's a Thiel Fellow too!
Common misconception. It was actually a sex robot.
Holy shit the guy doing the interview could dodge rain drops
Don’t touch my satellite
this is why we need space force people.
I think there is way more then 1700 satellites orbiting the Earth.
There is currently 4,987.
Nobody mentioned that space debris isnt a permanent thing. All space debris falls out of orbit over time because of atmospheric drag so were not going to cut off our access to space we just have to limit the amount of debris we produce
I was a 1st Lieutenant in the USAF who worked on this project for 2 years. Visited Vandenburg many times and added to the research for space debris mitigation.
11:06 My favorite part of this documentary.
The smile on her face.
This is as bad as our trash problem on earth. Are there no plans to clean up the debris or decommissioned equipment in space?
Nope, cleaning up space debris won't happen due to pure corporate greed. Don't expect anything but idiocracy.
@@mycoffeemyday absolutely agree
@@mycoffeemyday Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos should consider cleaning low earth orbit if they intend to have private space agencies and space tourism...
I mean... It would be bad for their business if some turist gets hit by space junk and dies, right?🤷♂️
Also, I think its in every country interest to keep their satellites intact, so why not cooperate on this matter?🤔
Blaze The Blazer - In the video they mentioned Russia designed a way to capture a satellite for "repairs" which is a major concern regarding US space assets being manipulated by other countries.
@@godskull5788 Yeah, idiots leading both USA and Russia should stop the Cold war 2 already. Just look at middle east... Demolished cities, destroyed infrastructure, dead or injured workforce...
If these idiots are truly "capitalists" they should have realized decades ago, that war only makes huge loses and zero profit.🤦♂️
I think we should elect orangutans as presidents, orangutans at least wont wage war against each other🤷♂️😂
His face says he's a nerd, his clothes says he's a clown.. so confused.
Thats Howard fr big bang theory in real life
He is the youngest person to build a nuclear reactor by his own!!! Regardless of what he wears you will always be the clown next to him lol
Gosh. Harsh much?
Wait a minute i know that journalist. Hes that fella who was messing around with nuclear reactors in a vice documentary.
I'm convinced humanity is stupid and will create enough space debris that we'll never be able to leave the plant, effectively condemning us to a certain doom. It's pretty poetic.
Elon Musk will propose sending a giant magnet up in space.....lol
whhusa
How would you stop a magnetic heap of trash building in size daily?? Maybe with another magnet that’s grounded or with some sort of thrusters to fly it down/around safely??
Just trying to help him..
Harmony Alexandria
Please explain. Give an example? Don’t just talk shit to sound smart?
Magnet won't work on Light Weight Aluminum OR plastic, rubber, and non magnetic material that most space systems use. Solution: 1 big giant Garbage bag!!
Harmony Alexandria you clearly don’t know what you’re talkin about so stfu
yet another reason to have crippling existential dread and anxiety. thank you, vice.
ahh humans, it isnt enough to litter and pollute the earth. We now have trash and litter in space
Soon we'll have some in mars😂
HUMANS!!; WHICH RACE IS DOING ALL OF THIS; IT AINT BLACK PEOPLE!
@Harmony Alexandria WHY WHITE FOLK YELLING "HUMANS" WHEN YOU ARE THE ONES WHO DID THIS!
Stop buying the propaganda. This is just more "you're destroying the earth, it's your fault, give us money to clean it up".
it's not me...it's THEM.
This guy looks like Armin from aot.
Haha!
I didnt believe in aliens until I saw this reporter. He made me a believer
Always mind boggling how we do not think about trash, debris in anything we do and now in space.
Trump wasn't joking about space force
I bet the main objective of the "space force" would to try to get ahead of the the debris problem. followed by enforcing laws
@@Splexity definitely, USA has a tendency to be on top of everyone and to control everything
All world leaders are acting worse than spoiled children right now 😂
Why is that dude wearing a women’s suit???
people are super funky these days
Some more general remarks:
One thing that has to be considered is that as the First Gulf War and the Balkan Conflict have shown, global positioning systems allow a much more efficient projection of military power. After all, don't you remember the Tomawhawks coming in through the windows of the interior ministry or the state television station in Baghdad? In any case, basically, the Powel Doctrine's argument was that with surgical attacks it was possible to destroy the enemy's chain of command, its offensive, and defensive potential, military-industrial complex while minimizing civilian and military casualties while lowering the costs of direct military intervention. Anyway, all of this within a larger context better known as RMA (revolution in military affairs) that began during the Regan presidency in the 1980s.
The fact is that with this “super big stick”, Americans started to intervene more in low-intensity conflicts not always with the expected result as in Somalia in 1993.
In any case, the Chinese and Russians have followed this closely and come to a simple conclusion: Almost all US Command and Control (C2) infrastructure is in space. All this considering the aggravating factor that US forces are scattered across the globe which makes satellites even more vital. At the same time, these governments themselves went through their RMAs that implied global positioning systems such as GLONASS and BeiDou (as well as denying the potential enemy the advantages of such a system). So the monopoly was eroded, as the Americans proposed the militarization of space, that something that is not so much of Trump himself but of George W. Bush with all that 2000s neocons talk about Rods of God. " Of course, neither the Chinese nor the Russians would let the orbital structures go unpunished to Americans (which sounds like a neoconservative Death Star) in which a military intervention in at least 48 hours to overthrow allied regimes took place in Iraq. in 2004 or now recently in Libya in 2011.
Who knows, Mackinder's way, and thinking of the near future with the proper license to the author, the prevalence in terms of strategic pivot is today with the one that will predominate in space near the earth than in the land itself for two reasons: higher ease of projection of military force on the globe (mobility and offensive power) and greater access to natural resources in the near future needed for the industrial economy 4.0.
"The following conclusion is as follows: arrive first, monopolize if possible or at least temporarily (or permanently) deny the enemy"
But in the event of a global collapse of all orbiting infrastructure, we continue to kill ourselves anyway (obviously not?), which makes me in the proposed solutions. It would be the use of Artificial Intelligence that would work together with tiny atomic clocks that would allow the precise calculation of coordinates while at the same time spending any kind of direct human intervention (in the event of communication drop either by Jamming or kinetic attack). Everything would turn out to be a "Skynet's" duel, sometimes employed offensively and sometimes defensively, without much human intervention, not to mention the traditional paper maps by ground troops. There are already indications that we are heading in this direction, especially with Russians and Chinese integrating AI into their strategic nuclear arsenals or Israelis who are testing artificial intelligence on Spice-2000 precision-guided bombs.
But it's hard to know where this will all end up considering the bureaucratic, resource and organizational chaos that affect the development of these areas now for the Americans...
Star Trek : "Live long and prosper."
Humanity : "Hold my beer."
*Prepares for war in space.*
Just to jog everyone's memory. US is usually the aggressor in every conflict.US is the only country that has military bases all over the world. For what? Only a aggressor acts like that. Other countries have as much right to develop and deter US aggression.
The interviewer looks like the fifth beatle.
J Shot that interviewer is smart than you and I both
They back engineered Lennon
The interviewers face fills me with rage
vice give us more space stuff to watch pls! ^.^
I Agree!!
@Micheal Koch then get off youtube lmao
They started to think about that only when the damaged is done.Pathetic!
Yep; Just like here on Earth.
@@lisakukla459 true
Why do all these science media presenters have weird haircuts?
Because when ur in science and media at the same time, ur not normal anymore and have become James bond
Define wierd haircuts
Space Debris is now an even bigger problem of debris getting smaller.
This is why we need to build a space elevator
That'll just provide a massive target for the debris to hit? Causing more debris when a collision causes part of it to explode. Space elevator is cool but we need a way of debris-proofing it first. One of the ways is complete vaporisation using lasers which both the US and Russia have had for decades now. If they wanted to get rid of all the space debris then they could obliterate it into basically nonexistant pieces but the fact is that they don't need to reveal their military capabilities and positions because it's not that big a threat yet. If it was they'd be talking about how they deal with it instead of just talking about how it might be a problem in the future.
@@sykessaul123 we can do it if we put our mind to it n commit
Nah better yet:
The skyhook
The space elevator is too big to even consider the idea, talk about that when humanity has colonised other planets.
More of this kind of Vice please.
Watching stuff like this makes me really want to become a scientist
to animate and cgi?
One day we will find new habitable earth but we won't be able to leave earth due to too much man-made debris
I don't know why but I'm not a huge fan of this host. He is good but always has a baffled expression on his face.
One question, why in first place we are creating space debris knowing that we will have to clean that at some point in future anyway !!
Its another hoax of the Nephilims elite slaves..... ua-cam.com/video/DfCEA4RgpK8/v-deo.html
Same reason we create so much pollution and trash on Earth... it's easier to make a mess than it is to clean it up. And people who reject these facts are worried about losing even a small amount of convenience so they'd rather deny the problem than commit any brain power to fixing it.
Its kind of a catch 22. The progression of technology for humans on earth as well as expanding our knowledge of space require satalites and moduels to be put into orbit. The more we try to learn and advance our sivilisation the more things we put into space Thus creating more space debrit.
If you think that's bad, you should see what they've done to the planet they live on.
Because corporate profits outweigh humanity.
“Classified” means it costs trillions of dollars.
These visuals finna make everyone think we got straight WALL-E levels of debris, if you look at real orbital maps you can see what it really looks like
yeah this is just fearmongering
@@nuip7936 i agree the visuals are exaggerated, but imo i think the threat is still extremely hazardous, both now and especially so in the future, both in the international relations realm down to our daily lives
Space isnt real anyway
Sounds like a job for Half Section
War didn't even begin yet, can you just enjoy the break...
There’s only one space, one Earth. Shall we destroy us all?
Light a match were doomed
The universe is infinite
This is going to be one a major issue in the future!
the audio on the voices has way too much bass
Are you Fishtones intolerant?
Random, but this makes me want to play Civilization and win the space race.
This has been a problem for a while right, I remember reading about this years ago
@C R i dont understand your Arabic symbols , all compliments in american please.
Lol in the animation those pieces of debris look like entire states
hey, aliens can’t reach us if they’re a debris field around earth, right?
probably they already think that we are some kind of *celestial dump yard*
just as we avoid dumpsters, may be they are avoiding us too (waiting for us to die & the planet to clean up)
@@dasalekhya I bet that's exactly what it look like if the alien just got the hyper drive and stop right at earth orbit and thinks, damn this place is nasty I ain't park my shit in this dumb. The next spaceship wash is 5000 lightyears away. We pass.
Crocodile Approach
I agree. If they’re traveling through space, they’ve probably ran into this problem hundreds of times(I’d assume, since they’re traveling through space lol).
media.giphy.com/media/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY/giphy.gif
probably a alien yelp and earth only got 1/2 a star.
lets build a wall
Just throw a HUGE BIG ASS MAGNET in space to collect all that junk. hire me. I have ideas. TM*
But how?🤔
@@nursyifachoiriah8535 using a fuckoff rope
@Peaceful Warrior that's false my friend
It has been a big problem for a while now heard about this in the 7th grade that was 10 years ago
"I can't think of a military operation that isn't enabled by space"
USMC Fire Team Leader - "Get me a map, a compass, and a runner. I've raided compounds with less"
Good luck precision guiding munitions and rockets
@@ghostdtx Never used those, just had 81 mortars and AT4s.
Video on Space Debris -> Video on Space Militarization.
Elon is about as close as you get to ''private'' space products, EVERYTHING Else in Space is Military. the origin of satellites in space (debris) is militaristic. when Sputnik went up in the 50's it was all America needed to Claim Space and how does America do Anything? With It's Military.
was up early gang
Gang gang gang
Yang Gang
Human animals are ridiculous. We can live for free yet made 'work' for ourselves and we just keep adding to the madness and trash we are creating so so quickly. It is scary.
I didn't know a Young WES ANDERSON was working for vice 🧐🖖🏼👌!!!
Crazy how we fucked up the earth now we’re moving on and fucking up our orbit system
Why does VICE always ruin these serious stories by sending the goofiest looking guys out to report on them?
Do you even know who he is?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson
@@xmazurx Thank you for this link, I always knew he was smart but not that smart! (Nuclear fusion at 14 wtf)
no wonder Aliens didn't contact us they zoomed into where the telescopes are and saw that skinny af dude and got scared
Doing way too much. These people are children playing with big dangerous toys.
You speak the truth
Vanderberg... that's where Yennefer is from.
And now we're about to put 40,000 more small cube like satellites in orbit.
SpaceX satellites are on low orbit, they don't pose long term threat.
WE arent doing shit...
i dont like how this turned into something about war man
I like how the US complains about Chinese anti-satellite missile tests while conveniently forgetting their US anti-satellite tests!
I'm sorry, you seem to be laboring under the assumption that national defense is based on some sort of Duelling Pistols at Dawn logic.
Lose a war, and it won't matter if you were principled or hypocritical. What matters is not losing. No one ever lost a war (and their nation) and then said "Yeah, but we played nice, boys, and that's what _really_ counts"
They should just launch multiple pods with lasers on them in diffrent orbits so they can just laser the space debris they come across
Tf is he doing at 5:20 trying to seduce that old lady with his unbuttoned shirt 😆🤦🏽♂️
You have wild imagination 😭😂
Uneno
$$$ sugar mami
Deuce Biggilo 3 : Deuces Wild
The strange thing is that an anti-satellite space due to the debris may lead to lower military surveillance and ops, increase in privacy and more use of human memory than Google maps.
Oodle Richhy uh what you mentioned was all bad
I like his interviews now. Hes not scared to ask questions anymore
That intro was amazing
Fake News Earth is flat duh
Prove it
@@JohnnyFBlaze-ek1rr ight so my theory is the sun that passes us each day isnt the sun itself but the illusion of the sun itself.
?? How is that proof that the earth is flat??
@@JohnnyFBlaze-ek1rr ok so you ever seen a heat mirage on the road? Its like a mirror. Strange right? Now put that in proportion to a heat intense enough to light our sky and boom its not a star but a heat source we're passing by everyday til its either close enough to break the illusion (and kill us all) or far enough to disappear (in which in the revelations it says their would b 3 days of darkness.)
@@XxXxXJerseyKidXxXxX so I guess you never flown in an airplane or been out on the open ocean correct?
How about start a company that builds tow ships and tow all this space junk into the sun
Hmm I wonder if this is the great filter in action.... There's life in space there just stuck behind a ton of space junk lol tbh if we're suck a stupid war like people maybe the universe is better off if we get stuck here
Absolutely lol
i don't want to be stuck here. and i have not done any of this.
@@KevinP32270 then use your peacefulness to stop space war before it happens lmao save us from the wall of junk war mongers want to put up to keep us down
@@jamesmunn3948 please tell me how. i have no power or money. be well.
@@KevinP32270 hmmm maybe try a crowdfundme to become Earth's space champion ..... Your powers will be that everyone who puts stuff in space must first let you inspect it and decide weather or not they can send it if you decide no then it just won't happen under threat of trial of by the space wizard army of peace and learning that we can also start a crowdfundme for
Barber: So what are you getting today?
Taylor: Across the Universe!
Barber: Say no more.
Was this filmed in 1974?
If Saddam had the ability to jam some of our signals in 1991 and 2003, then imagine what Iran & other powers have.... I'm not saying Iran is our enemy, I'm saying that they have the ability to defend themselves.
Jamming is used daily.
www.businessinsider.com/iran-is-jamming-ship-gps-navigation-systems-to-seize-them-2019-8
Vice, pick a less distracting presenter next time.
Wanna know how to fix space debris? Build a space bulldozer.
when i grow up, i want to join the space force!
Launch a bunch of orbiting magnets. Once they collect enough shit they'll weigh down and the orbit will decay.
TheRantingCabby im just guessing but are satellites made of magnetic materials? seems likely they arent.
Boy, are we clever? The cleverest life form ever to exist, but totally devoid of intelligence. All the clever things we can devise that will eventually destroy us all. We are too thick to understand what we are doing.
is this the guy that gives background narration for most vice news?
They sent the girliest guy to go talk to macho soldiers lmao
But you have to give it to him that he is doing good journalism. Compared to most of the very weak VICE newbies the guy is quite alright in my book.
How is he girly?
the most frightening thing nobody is talking about: you can't launch ICBMs through a debris field. meaning that the doctrine of Mutually assured destruction kinda falls apart when it is back to airplanes and submarines firing close range missiles, in otherwords i makes ww3 more likely.
I would love to watch the rest of this video Vice... but the presenter needs a hair cut and I can't take him seriously...
@Liberalism is a Cult he's a physics nerd and you're gonna need him in the next war so stfu
So many metrosexuals in the comment section.
madcityy ok snowflake
@Liberalism is a Cult Ironic username, shitlord. As if the far right religious nutbags aren't a cult all of their own.
they difintly see aliens with that telescope