Re: Space Junk in Earth Orbit
Actually, the space debris is NASA's and other in-the-know space-faring organizations' efforts at reducing the attractiveness of earth to cattle-mutilating and anal-probing aliens. Most of 'em are scared to enter near-Earth space as a result, and occasionally one gets disabled in orbit. Eventually, Earthly scientists hope that someone intent on real scientific exchange, rather than space-fraternity initiation, will show up and establish contact, if only to ask us to "Clean up out here, won't ya?"