PALO ALTO (RPT) – A growing trend among professors to clean out their offices and send their old journal articles into the earth’s orbit may threaten humanity’s access to space. These hard copies of journal articles are quickly outpacing the hazard from other sources of space-trash including old satellites, dead spacecraft and Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster.
“Accidental collisions of hard copies of articles in the earth’s orbit generates a multitude of tiny pieces of space-junk that can cause a hazard to spacecraft trying to escape from the earth’s orbit,” a NASA scientist told RPT, “if professors keep launching their old journal articles into space, pretty soon there will be no way for us to escape from earth without a fatal crash with potentially outdated and underpowered scientific findings.”
