Space Junk, Ahoy!

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The orbits hundreds to thousands of miles above Earth are littered with garbage. Space garbage, sure, but it’s still garbage. Littering in space is bad enough but it poses practical problems too – like space junk crashing into satellites or astronauts.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.7	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Astro Clark and there's Charles Afterburn Bryant.
0:52.4	And Jerry Goose Rollin is out there.
0:56.0	Wait, he called me Afterburn because I'm gassy.
0:58.8	Yep.
1:01.0	Although we've been we've been tuning for a year straight.
1:03.6	No one even.
1:04.6	No one else except us.
1:06.9	Have you ever set one of your ducks on fire?
1:11.0	Have I ever let a fart?
1:12.4	I was hoping to not use that word, but yes.
1:16.2	Yeah, I used to, there was a period in my youth where I thought that was just about the
1:20.9	funniest thing ever and I still think it's pretty hysterical.
1:24.0	I just don't do it.
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