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Unfortunately, to show the Earth and the orbital positions to scale, it was not possible to show the pieces of debris to scale.
by stugrey 11y ago
Unfortunately, to show the Earth and the orbital positions to scale, it was not possible to show the pieces of debris to scale.
- neffy 11y agoYes, sorry. The not-to-scale aspect meant it jumped the shark almost immediately for me as well. As small as possible, following the initial display of the object, might have conveyed the idea better - and that would have made the Chinese explosion a little more fun.
- DanBC 11y agoBut see also the NASA visualisation on the NASA orbital debris site: http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/ http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
- gjem97 11y agoI understand the technical limitations, but it appears that you have an axe to grind: sounding the alarm about space debris. In that context it seems disingenuous to show space as more crowded than it is.