Can Space Junk Kill you? | Earth Lab

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Published on March 23, 2017 1:53:19 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VQpvJ7_8O8

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With all the debris floating around in space, what are the chances of it killing one of us, or all of us? Dominic Burgess has the answers.
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Foot notes:

1) https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/bumper.html
2) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html
3) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110909-nasa-space-debris-uars-satellite-top-five-science/
4) http://www.space.com/21122-skylab-space-station-remains-museum.html
5) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/110909-nasa-space-debris-uars-satellite-top-five-science/
6) http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98700&page=1
7) http://www.livescience.com/33511-falling-nasa-satellite-uars-risk.html
8) http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/scientists-calculate-odd-ways-die-282884
9) http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html
10) https://futurism.com/the-seriousness-of-the-kessler-syndrome/
11) http://futurism.com/what-are-the-long-term-plans-to-deal-with-space-junk/