{"id":1194,"date":"2025-01-11T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2025-01-11T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T01:30:27","slug":"great-article-about-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/great-article-about-space-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"Great article about space debris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ars always has the inside story thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/01\/a-glowing-ring-of-metal-fell-to-earth-and-no-one-has-any-idea-what-it-is\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2025\/01\/a-glowing-ring-of-metal-fell-to-earth-and-no-one-has-any-idea-what-it-is\/\">Eric Berger<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve got my tin foil hat on, so this is quite obviously a SpaceX part, just like the hundreds that have fallen in the past decade.  I&#8217;m sure it will only get worse with the muskrat emboldened by even less regulation.  My prediction is that we will see a dead astronaut, or worse, a civilian from space debris before the end of the cheeto&#8217;in&#8217;chief&#8217;s second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RDT_20240621_2105597777495448994584884.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RDT_20240621_2105597777495448994584884.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/thecweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RDT_20240621_2105597777495448994584884-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RDT_20240621_2105597777495448994584884-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thecweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/RDT_20240621_2105597777495448994584884-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars always has the inside story thanks to Eric Berger. I&#8217;ve got my tin foil hat on, so this is quite obviously a SpaceX part, just like the hundreds that have fallen in the past decade. I&#8217;m sure it will only get worse with the muskrat emboldened by even less regulation. My prediction is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,51],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}