April 13, 2008: Pigs In Space

[The 42]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

Does anyone remember seeing this joked about in the trailers of the future Pixar film, Wall-E?

Yeah, I was just thinking about that.
Another thought: If the only place we're getting our resources is Earth, then we WILL eventually run out of metals, or if we find a way to fabricate metal from something else, then we'll run out of mass. All that debris would be much more useful brought back to earth and melted down than flung off into space...
Too bad the only people in a position to actually do anything about it are too short-sighted to care!