Eleanor Rigby: A Novel
by Douglas Coupland · 29 May 2006 · 247pp · 65,550 words
now a guest in their hospital. I felt like an urban legend sprung to life: You know, that crazy lady who thought this chunk of space junk was a meteorite. She stuck it in her luggage and shut down the world’s seventh largest airport. I was placed in reverse isolation—yes
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might say so.” It turned out Klaus was one of the two million or so people who were inconvenienced when Frankfurt’s airport discovered the space junk in my suitcase. He’d been waiting to pick up his mother, who was routing through Frankfurt on her way back from a botanical expedition
Distrust That Particular Flavor
by William Gibson · 3 Jan 2012 · 153pp · 45,871 words
bearing word of an alien technological culture they must have found as marvelous, as disconcerting, as we might find the products of reverse-engineered Roswell space junk. These Modern Boys, as the techno-cult they spawned came popularly to be known, somehow induced the nation of Japan to swallow whole the entirety
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell · 23 Oct 2017 · 292pp · 92,588 words
enough about these fortifications to invest $1 billion in a new radar installation on the atoll designed to help satellites and astronauts avoid colliding with space junk as they orbit the Earth. “It is a different world out on the base,” one Marshall Islander who works at the test site told me
SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully
by Jane McGonigal · 14 Sep 2015 · 525pp · 147,008 words
it was in my bones, and not a body part. I was shocked. At my age, getting cancer seemed as likely as getting struck by space junk in my kitchen.” Over the next six years, Phillip underwent many rounds of chemotherapy, which he describes as “lonely, challenging, and exhausting.” He hit his
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
by Oliver Franklin-Wallis · 21 Jun 2023 · 309pp · 121,279 words
-pacific-garbage-patch-is-3-times-the-size-of-france 5 Raffi Khatchadourian, ‘The Elusive Peril Of Space Junk’, New Yorker, 21/09/2020: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-elusive-peril-of-space-junk 6 S. Kaza, L. Yao, P. Bhada-Tata and F. Van Woerden, ‘What A Waste 2
The Norm Chronicles
by Michael Blastland · 14 Oct 2013
sky-dive 284 risk 144 Slovic, Paul 49, 127, 208, 237 smallpox 66 social control 101 social norms 99 societal concerns 202 space 213–24 space-junk 222 spike, in steering wheel 167 sports, accidents 179 Standardised Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) 258 statins 47 still-births 25 stories 4, 65, 266
Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington · 6 Apr 2020 · 384pp · 93,754 words
, must move from a political improbability to an integral, taken-for-granted part of our economic operating systems and markets. And fast. WICKED PROBLEM 5: SPACE JUNK HITS CRITICAL DENSITY For a long time, space exploration was very far from profitable. It was done for science, or to control a new set
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just the same, particularly in the form of space debris. Some years back Brian Weeden, a technical advisor for the Secure World Foundation, even described space junk as a “super wicked problem.”33 Interestingly, one thing that links antibiotics to space is the fact that antibiotic resistance research has now itself gone
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will collide with one another and create small debris faster than it can be removed.”35 He predicted that eventually there will be so much space junk that leaving Earth to explore deep space will become highly risky, if not impossible. That, someone might want to tell Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
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all of this could now be headed. Talk about a wicked problem with super wicked characteristics. So how do serious space people themselves view the space junk challenge? Here’s how NASA sums up the problem:36 Space debris encompasses both natural (meteoroid) and artificial (man-made) particles. Meteoroids are in orbit
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collided with and destroyed a functioning US Iridium commercial satellite. The collision added more than 2,000 pieces of trackable debris to the inventory of space junk. Next, while I was in that country, China carried out its 2007 antisatellite test, using a missile to destroy an old weather satellite. This single
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, it was discovered that while Russia had the most objects in space, more than 6,500 of them, it was not the biggest contributor to space junk. Instead, at the time, the United States held the title of the dirtiest country in space, even if by a whisker. Russia had 3,961
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call it a tie? China, meanwhile, had only just increased its space efforts. Even so, it ran a close third with 3,475 pieces of space junk, much of it the result of that 2007 anti-satellite test. Obvious questions to ask include whether this stuff falls back to Earth—and, if
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Agency, and their Russian, Chinese, and Indian counterparts for space dominance. Clearly, all this activity is bound to have an impact on the amount of space junk. Here’s how Wired magazine put it: Just how much bigger will the problem get? SpaceX alone plans to send up nearly 12,000 small
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system (really). It just launched six “Sprites”: the world’s smallest satellites, measuring 3.5 centimeters on a side.40 All of which suggests that space junk is already a wicked problem—and, if space warfare ever breaks out, potentially a super wicked problem in the making. If others follow the Chinese
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. See also: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543957/american-war-by-omar-el-akkad/9781101973134/. 33.Hugh Lewis, “Trouble in Orbit: the Growing Problem of Space Junk,” BBC News, August 5, 2015. See also: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33782943. 34.Ruth Milne, “Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria from Space,” Microbiology
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the Countries on Earth.” 39.“Frequently Asked Questions: Orbital Debris,” NASA. See also: https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html. 40.Sarah Scoles, “The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier,” Wired, July 31, 2017. See also: https://www.wired.com/story/the
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-space-junk-problem-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-gnarlier/. 41.“Observations of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Concentration in Earth’s Thermosphere,” Nature Geoscience, 5, 2012, pages
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pathological nature of, 26–27 Costa Rica, 226–227 Courtice, Polly, 246 creating shared value (CSV), 59 criminal liability, 66 Crispr, 180, 181 critical density, space junk, 112 Crutzen, Paul, 86–87 C-suites. See business leaders, working with D Dalio, Ray, 5 data, role in economy, 190, 192 Davies, Sally, 104
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profitability with characteristics of, 55 purpose with characteristics of, 50 push and pull in evolution of, 189–190 recent examples, 42 reinventing everything, 197–199 space junk through eyes of, 116 spotting, 254–256 sustainability with characteristics of, 213–218 systemic change overview, 201–202 three horizons, two scenarios, 2000-2100, 38
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and, 52 Novo Nordisk engagement with, 156, 157–158 Sonar, 140–141 Sørensen, Lars Rebien, 155–158 Sorrell, Martin, 124–125 Soskice, David, 211–212 space junk, 111–116 SpaceX, 115 SPARK 2019 conference, 244–245 sponge cities, 136, 255 Stalin, Joseph, 203 State of New York, 128–129 Steele, Tanya, 200
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Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor and David Horsey · 1 Jan 2001 · 378pp · 102,966 words
feet. To get out beyond the hazards of Earth’s space clutter, future astronauts may spend much of their time dodging bullets of space junk. Meanwhile, back on Earth, space-junk collectors like Jim Bernath of British Columbia anxiously await the descent of more debris, to add to their collections. Bernath already owns chunks
The Zenith Angle
by Bruce Sterling · 27 Apr 2004 · 342pp · 95,013 words
,’ as you say. But now we have ongoing operational anomalies. What do you make of that?” Van could handle that question. “That’s BUMPER, your space-junk debris collision program. I looked at BUMPER, too. BUMPER has an unexamined assumption in its design specs. BUMPER assumes that debris cannot intercept a spacecraft
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Earth’s atmosphere and burn up immediately.” “No,” said Van. “Not if the debris were coming off of the spacecraft itself. Not big chunks of space junk, not yet. But a fine haze of debris. Ionized. Ablated. Particles and ejecta from violent surface shocks. You would get a dielectric constant on the
Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon
by Fodor's · 17 Aug 2010
the magic of a meteor shower, the natural fireworks display that occurs as Earth passes through a cloud of debris called meteoroids. These pieces of space junk—most the size of a pebble—hit our atmosphere at high speeds, and the intense friction produces brief but brilliant streaks of light. Single meteors
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time of the year. SATELLITES Right now, according to NASA, there are about 3,000 operative man-made satellites (along with 6,000 pieces of space junk) orbiting the Earth—and you can catch a glimpse of one with a little practice. Satellites look like fast-moving, non-blinking points of light
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