Astronaut Garrett Reisman on Space Junk and Micrometeorites

Remember in Cowboy Bebop how Earth was partly uninhabitable because of the incredible amount of space junk re-entering orbit and crashing into the earth?

I feel like I would have his reaction about space like Ohh cool, looks just like the photos. The science onboard the ISS is what would really get me excited.

Do you know how much gold and other precious metals are out there

Nothing will ever be done about it. Too many egotistical, power hungry people with God-complexes (government bureaucrats wanting to spy and control, plus billionaires desperate for attention). So we'll just continue to launch new crap out into space every single day, at an ever increasing rate. Nothing will ever change, and one day we'll run out of key materials needed for rockets. And we'll have flung half of earth's mass out into space. All so we can stroke our egos and chase fame.

so we managed to pollute space too?

Prolonging inevitable to understand who rank not answering 🔺 ... Some boss 📞 ing

Their heads compliment each other

This is so stupid; I invented a robot with a metal-detector and a roobma to clean it all up, I'l be rich.
The thing about pilots is that they're not engineers.

What's the junk? Water bottles and plastic bags?

I need evidence real evidence before I believe anything

earth is the ghetto lol

So they won't do anything about it because it's too expensive but NASA will spend 10 billion dollars on a telescope 😊

Joe just ask the guy questions in a way we all would. Like if we just met this guy on a plane and got to pick his brain. Then Garrett understanding our curiosity about space gladly answers and is genuinely engaged. That's dope

Shield capacity at 20%, seems like shield generators have shut down.

Never seen any "space junk" in outer space!!

I mean - how do they go up there as often as they do and not get nailed? Crazy

Problem solved. Create a mini engine designed to burn for 5 minutes in one direction, stick a very adhesive substance on the flat end (the front can be flat because its space) and simply remotely attach it to one side of the piece of debris and have it burn its engine towards earth for five minutes, that will push it down and with the downwards trajectory added to its orbit it will eventually become caught in earths atmosphere and burn itself up as it falls through the atmosphere.

We trashed earth now we are trashing outer space, wonderful.

There's actually an amazing anime about space junk called Planetes. It's basically about a section of a company that works to remove space debris. Colorful cast of half trained employees on a half funded division of their company. The anime will hook you in the first 15 minutes!

How can anything that affects the entire world be expensive? Things can’t be made without cutting down a tree and giving it to someone??

Question Would you go to Mars? Expression ,I'm not running to Mars. Of course not you rocket there.Realality No I'm not.

Yay short people! We live longer and are less likely to get hit by space junk!

Space junk is the confirmation that the most richest governments in the world are the worst polluters...not the people who live in these nations. If you ask me human beings do not deserve to live on planet earth

Bullshit

I've seen a connex burn up during re-entry through the atmosphere

So we’ve went from polluting the planet to polluting space ? 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

He’s more phony than transsexual cheerleaders in space

I just hope one day, maybe billions year from now, a alian civilization will find a tool of us. And wonder what the fuck it is and who and why sent is.

"Don't make more junk!"
Elon Musk: "I will shoot a Tesla into space for shits and giggles!"

mm in diameter? you aren't going to just causally see a hole that size. what a load of bs.

And if there is all this junk floating around, why does every video of people looking at the earth, from the space station, never show ANY of it?

Giant natural gas bombs exploded inside the densest parts of junk! boom problem sorta solved.

What if a bigger bit the size of a damn car hits it?

I thought one can’t hear sounds in space? 🤔

WOW!!

As an aspiring astronaut, I love seeing all the space content and the excitement that there is around space travel! Though it may be scary up there.

They are all liars. Space is flat and there is evidence. You just have to look into it .

"that's what humans do man~ " comment made me sad.....

What if we made a giant net to catch all of the junk like a fishnet

Trash is our legacy

what those burnings cause to us, our orbit etc.

Humans are great at destroying stuff.

So humans are polluting space too?

This guy is the best guest ever on JRE straight up

Eddie’s not on the cast to let this guy understand the earth is flat and everything he’s seeing is a mind hallucination

It’s a huge concern said this MF liar….

Its amazing how when it comes to making our planet more habitable for a longer period of time isnt possible because the number of a thin green material that some old dudes labeled and put a purpose on is stopping us. lol like why cant we just build and do shit instead of paying

It is impossible to see space jump or equipment left on the moon by satellite or telescope, so did we even go?

The dimming.

It's crazy that grown men still believe in outer space. It's hilarious.