#debris
2020 was the worst year of my life (so far), but I was able to channel my emotions into art. I released an album, and had a collection of poems left over. These are those poems.
Content warning: Depression, self harm, drugs
Have you ever had a day when you are relaxing and sitting on the couch, when something totally unexpected happens? The interruptions can come in the form of people visiting, a weird sound, or an animal passing by your home. They are all different, but they are all the same—they are unpleasant.
A resident at Shanxi Province in China went through a similar experience, but it is so much more nerve-racking.
A large hole is now seen on the roof of this man’s house. This is caused by a part of a space shuttle’s engine falling down from space, landing on his roof.
There were other similar reports in the area. The extent of the damage and debris can be seen inside the house.
Reports of the same incident go as far as a 300-mile radius. This was based on the country’s official site launch.
Thankfully, no one got hurt or killed from this incident. We certainly hope that this incident is no longer replicated.
Iris Van Herpen ‘ Earthrise’ Collection
For the 2021 edition of paris couture week, dutch designer Iris Van Herpen has collaborated with Parley for the Oceans to create five dresses entirely made out of upcycle marine debris.
© Iris Van Herpen
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Australia’s Bushfire Aftermath
Australia’s east-coast bushfires of 2019-2020 have been extinguished for some time now, but the rafts of charred debris continue to linger on our beaches, leaving a permanent record of the events of last summer.
Such records, when successfully preserved in sedimentary environments, is what scientists study to better understand what fire regimes were like in the past, so we have better idea what is to come.
Warrain Beach, Australia
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Photo 2 project focusing on framing with my own experimentation of DIY lens filters!
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Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991)
Wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, paper, textile, wire.
Cornelia Parker (b. 1956)
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The extensive cloud of debris Russia’s anti-satellite test created
Early this week, Russia launched a missile that destroyed the country’s Kosmos 1408 satellite, a large spacecraft that orbited the Earth roughly 300 miles up. The breakup of the satellite created at least 1,500 pieces of trackable fragments, according to the US State Department, as well as thousands of smaller pieces that cannot be tracked.
All of those pieces are still in low Earth orbit, moving at thousands of miles an hour and posing a threat to any objects that might cross their path. Initially, that even included the International Space Station, with crew members on board forced to take shelter in their spacecrafts as the debris cloud from the satellite passed by the ISS a couple of times.
It’s going to take weeks or even months to fully understand just how bad the situation is, but early visualizations of the ASAT test created by satellite trackers show an extensive trail of space debris left in the wake of the breakup.
The fragments appear like a dotted snake in orbit, stretching out and moving in roughly the same direction that Kosmos 1408 used to move around Earth. And there’s one thing the visualizers agree on: this snake of debris isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. “There will be some potential collision risk to most satellites in [low Earth orbit] from the fragmentation of Cosmos 1408 over the next few years to decades,” LeoLabs, a private space tracking company in the US sais.
A screengrab of a visualization, created by Hugh Lewis
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Aki Hoshino - NS Eyes No488
Our Invisible Idol family is growing and today we reach the 40 followers mark so a new pic is added. I have a little surprise for you all when we are 50.
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Where are all these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the straight answer is the constellation of Perseus- which is why the meteor shower that peaks tomorrow night is known as the Perseids. In other terms though, the Perseids meteors come from Comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet follows a well-defined orbit around our Sun, and the part of the orbit that approaches Earth passes in front of the Perseus constellation. Therefore, when Earth crosses this orbit, the radiant point of falling debris appears in Perseus.
Featured here, a composite image taken over eight nights and containing over 400 meteors from 2018 August’s Perseids meteor shower shows many bright meteors that streaked over Kolonica Observatory in Slovakia. This year’s Perseids holds promise to be one of the best meteor showers of the year. Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek
My interests are so sporadic I will literally go from oh I love this clearly-made-for-children movie and want to explore more to straight up yes bludgeon him in the head with that ice pick in two seconds
