yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

What Happens When an Astronaut Drops Something in Space? | Short Film Showcase


4m read
·Nov 11, 2024

My name is Vanguard. My body is an aluminium sphere sixteen point five centimeters in diameter, and I weigh one point four seven kilograms. In 1958, I was the first solar-powered satellite to be launched into outer space. I had value, I served a purpose, and now I drift aimlessly in perpetual orbit. Since my retirement, I have become a piece of space junk, the oldest human artifact circling the earth. I do not travel alone; millions of other pieces of junk orbit with me: rocket parts, fuel tanks, batteries, dead satellites. Before we became junk, we each had a use, but now we've become a threat.

[Applause] Guys, I don't tell you, I think my faction escaped. Once we get in, depressurise that outer portion, it pops open the internal hatch, and it's time for peers to slide outside. That’s Spear’s feet in this, near the center of the screen: your Palace or Spectrum of Life, div leader, object follower.

[Music] Guys, if caught on the anywhere, no dad, I don't hook ever to me, ever feed on them. We did actually lose a spatula somewhere along the way; it accidentally got lost. Joe, Cynthia, Alfred, Aruna, Levanto, go. Birthdays is a virtue. Estella Mentos a year, or Vidonne man. Wat ROFL Anitha kimono lol. Eventos mod n toda tanto cientos de mille Bellomont curve eaten dentro de de la serda frost yet. This spatula, like all space junk, traveled at 17,500 miles per hour. Eventually, it burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

[Music] You know, after we learned of its loss, we mourned it because this factor was really trying to get away and she got away clean and went off to become a satellite of her own and space debris.

[Music] Normal meant a no imouto conocimiento a la gente. Oh no se habla mucho porque como el patio euro de lo que es nuestra Mo’s fira que la parte de los feminine tase. Today from the International Space Station, this morning is the scene of cautionary vigilance as flight director Chris Edelen and his orbit one team of flight controllers monitor the approach of a small chunk of space debris in the vicinity of the station, that prompted the precautionary sheltering of the six crew members in their respective Soyuz spacecraft. Space debris, you know, as an operating astronaut, it was just the enemy. Everything between this and teeny-weeny, we can't see it, we don't know where it is.

So it's a sleet, a sleet of very fast-moving stuff with closing speeds of maybe, um, you know, one to two miles per second. A piece of space debris is just 20 minutes and 45 seconds away. Flight controllers standing by here in Mission Control, just 30 seconds to go until the time of closest approach. The green light has been given for the crew to back out of their sheltering procedures, with the piece of Cosmo satellite debris having come and gone with no threat to the International Space Station. For our colleagues, have a nice weekend, this is Mission Control Houston.

So we play the odds, you know, it's a big sky theory that stuff that we can't see will miss us, and so far, you know, we've been lucky. It's getting crowded up here; some of us have already collided with and destroyed working satellites. One more collision, click, red cascade, creating more debris, followed by more collisions. Our destructive power might eliminate current satellites altogether. Future space exploration may also become impossible. Every orbital launch generates rocket parts as debris, as mine once did. Some pieces remain orbiting forever, some burn up, some land unpredictably on earth, some, they say, are guided safely into the ocean.

[Music] We hire, we whoa, bye, my little Anya, we're gonna let that go.

[Music] This is some of the debris currently orbiting planet Earth. We are a floating graveyard; apparently, people believe that harpoons, magnets, or nets could catch us and limit the future damage we threatened to cause. But right now, there's no viable means to bring us back to earth, to bring us home.

I think that the business of dealing with the unknown is what attracts a lot of people to science, a lot of people to astronautics. Es un par de Diez - hemos una visita de personas mayores, and on de uno de ellos, me pregunto: ¿Cierra normal tirar cuando se mira del cielo? Dijo que el sentimiento gallon bar GABA era de muchas, whoo, sentimiento de mucho profundidad dentro de.

[Music] I was home out of a trust by one hand. For a while, it was night, and suddenly I saw the thumb come off on the rise in the head of me, my feet hanging over the earth. I watched the dawn come up over the planet and just come in a line straight underneath me, and then the Sun come up and hit me in the face. If you all see the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, it's just like you're standing in space, you know, make it or sitting in shorts or something, and it's totally in the environment. You become very, very well how huge the planet is below you and how beautiful it is.

Vanguard was America's first satellite in space. Now there she is, still up there with little whip antennas wagging, not in the wind but in the vacuum of space, going around and around and around, quiet now, nothing happening, but perfectly preserved as far as we know. So one day, somebody will go out there with a butterfly net when snagger puede ser sentimientos entry motion.

Oh, c'est de treat esse también de incognita de severe no se estamos express toes a que un trozo de toe no Skagen SEMA oh, oh puede que no puede que esto que de or llegando dan amante.

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

More Articles

View All
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar
All right, the Veck, why don’t we start with what you guys do, and then we’ll rewind to before you even did YC? Yes, sure! I’m S. V. Ivent, one of the founders and CEO of HackerRank. Our mission at HackerRank is to match every developer to the right job,…
Warren Buffett: How to Make Money During the 2023 Recession
So if you’re worried about the economy right now, you’re in pretty good company. According to a study done by CNBC, a whopping 81% of Americans are worried that a recession will be hitting the U.S. this year. You can add billionaire investor Warren Buffet…
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups
My name is Gustav. I’m gonna give a talk on growth for startups. This is gonna be for some of you guys, not super relevant right now because you might not have launched and thinking too much about growth when you’re having a launch isn’t that relevant. Bu…
Buying the New Tudor Black Bay Chrono 'Pink'
[Applause] [Music] Hey, Mr. Wonderful here, back in New York City, and one of my favorite watch stores in the world. This is the Meat Packing District, the Tudor Boutique. Tudor has come on my radar screen in the last 3 years as a maverick brand because I…
How To Live Frugally and Achieve Financial Independence
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So this is a really interesting topic: how to live frugally and achieve financial independence. This is something that at its core is really, really simple. It’s not at all complicated. In fact, I could sum up everyth…
Making Grilled Cheese at the Bottom of the World: A Day in the Life of a Scientist | Continent 7
My name is Paul. This is lunch in Antarctica. Everyday welcome to the kitchen, sits next to the science disc. I live on cheese toasties, so we make that’s lunch. My puppy here, three or four a day. It’s got a bit of cheese here. You can either use this or…