Erm … it’s an animation … 
… and Skylab died some time ago:
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. Skylab’s orbit gradually decayed and it disintegrated in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979, scattering debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.
Oops. A senior moment. I meant the International Space Station.
I think space junk came from our planet in the first place.
What a load of old bollox!
If the space junk was as large as shown in the animation, each piece would weigh over 200,000 tons and be as big as Cuba. The animation is so far out of perspective it’s a joke!
Spot on Bakerman…It’s a joke isn’t it? :-D:-D:-D
Indeed. For the proportions to be correct, the animated Earth, in that video, would have to be 50 miles across.
Here is another “depiction” - The Pillars of Creation
Beautiful photo, Omah. Just imagine the enormous distances between each of those stars. Light years between each one.
It boggles the imagination.
Fancy that, living in an Hadron.
The surface of the earth is 196.9 million square miles…
Space begins at approximately 62 miles high…
Satellites (and space junk) orbit at between 300 - 600 miles for commercial and communication satellites, and between 600 - 1200 miles for military use…
Therefore if we extrapolate by 100 (which would be very conservative) we arrive at 19,690,000,000 square miles…
If we divide that by the number of items classed as space junk (128 million)
We find that each single piece of space junk has approximately 153.828 square miles to fly around in.
Considering some pieces of space junk are less than 10 centimetres in diameter, I would suggest that you could spend a lifetime zooming around in space and never encountering one piece of space junk…
Lets get things in proportion shall we…
With all due respect to Omah, this is no reflection on you, and I appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
It just goes to show, by the reaction of some posters, just how much information like this can be so misleading.
Told yah before, time, distance, money etc is meaningless, after the first six zeros.
Anyway, just in case, got a sign on my front door “NO SPACE JUNK”.
It’s a wild guess but I “imagine” that NASA’s depiction of the distribution and movement of man-made objects orbiting Earth would not be considered “realistic” by anyone but the uninformed …
Erm, it’s not a photo - those stars aren’t “real” and aren’t “to scale”" - the image is a “depiction” assembled from infrared radiation data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Pillars span about 5 light-years in length (that’s about 3.5 times the diameter of our solar system) …
You are right, it’s a wild guess and that you imagine NASA’s depiction is not ‘realistic’
And posters on OFF Omah…
Very misleading, and I believe done on purpose Omah…
Of course you believe … you have a very good imagination … 
Here’s a sub-space “depiction”:
Illustrating flights taken over two days in September 2013, this clip demonstrates the frequency of plane flights arriving at and departing from airports worldwide.
In case some OFF posters find the “depiction” misleading I should point out that “The scale is out of all proportion.”
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Thanks for the complement Omah (I think…
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Mankind’s greatest achievements all started from imaginings…
Enjoyed the Air traffic clip Omah, I wonder what it must look like today? It certainly demonstrates why Europe and the USA has been hit the hardest by Covid…:surprised:
