Stuff in Space

Feuer Frei! · 07-28-16, 07:02 AM

Eye-candy (interactive map), and a dam cool one too:

Stuff in Space is a realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit. The map is made by James Yoder, an incoming Electrical and Computer Engineering freshman at the University of Texas, Austin. Red dots are satellites, blue dots rocket boedies and gray dots are debris.

Scroll over an object and it gives the orbit trace.

http://stuffin.space/

Sailor Steve · 07-28-16, 08:28 AM

That is an awesome piece of work!

Buddahaid · 07-28-16, 10:00 AM

Good grief!

Nice to know we leave so much garbage where ever we go.

Jimbuna · 07-30-16, 09:33 AM

Doubt I'll ever perform a space walk after seeing all that!!

u crank · 07-30-16, 11:47 AM

That is really cool. Humans like to mark their territory.

Mittelwaechter · 07-30-16, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by u crank

That is really cool. Humans like to mark their territory.

...with garbage or burnt soil.

u crank · 07-30-16, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

...with garbage or burnt soil.

That too. Also good movies, kind thoughts and scientific achievements. Always looking on the upside.

Mittelwaechter · 07-30-16, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by u crank

...Always looking on the upside.

How about - let's look on both sides - and try to shine the upside while encouraging all to fight the downside?

Oh - your upside could be my downside?

So let's grant everyone to look at things - and decide for themselves what's up and down?

u crank · 07-30-16, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

How about - let's look on both sides - and try to shine the upside while encouraging all to fight the downside?

Yea that is a good idea. On the other hand I think that everyone knows about the down side. In this particular case most of that space junk has been used to enhance our present life style in one way or another. There is not much I can do about that.

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Oh - your upside could be my downside?

I'm guessing that it probably is.

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So let's grant everyone to look at things - and decide for themselves what's up and down?

Be my guest.

Skybird · 07-30-16, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Doubt I'll ever perform a space walk after seeing all that!!

Yes, it might end up looking like this:

(if you want to vomit on your keyboard, watch in VR).

Reece · 07-30-16, 10:00 PM

Someone need to hire a cleanup crew!!

What a load of junk!!

Jimbuna · 07-31-16, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Yes, it might end up looking like this:

(if you want to vomit on your keyboard, watch in VR).

Looks awful cluttered up there!!

Eichhörnchen · 08-01-16, 12:40 PM

All kinds of nonsense up there...

AVGWarhawk · 08-01-16, 01:56 PM

Global warming. Galactic warming. We got it.

Gerald · 08-01-16, 02:00 PM

That's easy cool.

07-28-16, 07:02 AM	#1
Feuer Frei! Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Valhalla Posts: 5,295 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 17	Stuff in Space Eye-candy (interactive map), and a dam cool one too: Stuff in Space is a realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit. The map is made by James Yoder, an incoming Electrical and Computer Engineering freshman at the University of Texas, Austin. Red dots are satellites, blue dots rocket boedies and gray dots are debris. Scroll over an object and it gives the orbit trace. http://stuffin.space/ __________________ "History is the lies that the victors agree on"- Napoleon LINK TO MY SH 3 MODS

07-28-16, 08:28 AM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	That is an awesome piece of work! __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-28-16, 10:00 AM	#3
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,327 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Good grief! Nice to know we leave so much garbage where ever we go. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

07-30-16, 09:33 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,653 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Doubt I'll ever perform a space walk after seeing all that!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

07-30-16, 11:47 AM	#5
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,747 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	That is really cool. Humans like to mark their territory. __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

07-30-16, 10:00 PM	#11
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,734 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Someone need to hire a cleanup crew!! What a load of junk!! __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

08-01-16, 12:40 PM	#13
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,408 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	All kinds of nonsense up there... __________________

08-01-16, 01:56 PM	#14
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,276 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Global warming. Galactic warming. We got it. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	That's easy cool. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie