Swiss Sanitation Satellite

There are several news stories about the new space probe being developed by the Swiss. The CleanSpace One is supposed to be approximately the size of a shoe box, and capable of latching on to any old satellites or pieces of satellites and bringing it to a relative stop to earth, causing it to fall back to the surface in such a way that the CleanSpace One will burn up with whatever space-junk it has latched onto. This could be quite useful. Due to information given by NASA scientist, Donald Kessler, who stated that the density of objects orbiting the planet could greatly increase in a short period of time. The density could become such that space exploration could become temporarily impossible, or at the very least far more unfeasible for many generations.

This appears to be the opinion that most stories written about these unmanned vessels, that they will work, and are not a waste of resources. This is stated in one article when it states that:

One of the most attractive aspects of the "CleanSpace One" project is that it will reportedly be downright cheap. Initial estimates put the costs for both its production and launch at 10 million Swiss francs (€8.3 million/$10.8 million).

This states that the author believes that unnecessary resources will not be wasted on this project, and that the cost will be downright cheap as far as budgets for space programs go. In addition, one statement that is often said is generally something along the lines of "Is there any surprise that the first people to clean up space may be the Swiss?" This is referring to the waste management systems and the "green" energy practices used by the Swiss Confederation. It seems to be that people expect that the Swiss Confederation to continue with a waste disposal program that is apparently significantly better than many other countries.

The Aftermath

In my last post, I mentioned how it was "one of the most difficult things I have partaken in." I must say that the movie was a "best case scenario." We were not kicked out of the movie theater. In addition to that, the 3D effects were okay by my standards, somewhat blurry at some points, but not that much unnecessary "popping" out of the screen.


Actually, I would like to give a thank you to my friends who invited me to this, as I would not have had a reason to leave the house last night, and would have probably been watching TV and playing Xbox all night. I did enjoy going to the movie, so thank you, all of you.


On a somewhat related note, I am looking forward to the release of the movie based on The Hunger Games, as the books were good, and I would like to see if they are able to do the series justice. My fingers are crossed.


I am sorry if the length of this post is not up to previous standards. I just do not have that much to say today.

Herding Cats

 There are some things that you attempt that turn out to be really easy to accomplish, and then there are things that turn out to be almost as difficult as herding cats. What some friends of mine are trying to attempt is part of the latter, not impossible per-see, but without organization, one of the most difficult things I have partaken in.

What we are attempting is for a group of about fifteen people to go see Star Wars episode 1 in 3D. It will be difficult as I do believe that the movie has just been released in theaters today, and tickets are approximately $18. I am starting to wonder if this was really a good idea, but even if it turns out to be a worse idea than watching the entire Doctor Who series in one sitting, I am going to see it through to the end.

  

However if someone in our ridiculously sized group does something that causes us to be banned, either from the theater temporarily, permanently, or the entire mall for any amount of time, I may have to reconsider who my friends are. It probably will not be that bad. If worst comes to worst, we will probably just not be able to see the movie, or not all of us anyway.

Well, I should probably wrap this up for now. And to anyone reading this who noticed that I have fallen behind on the updates, I apologize,  I allowed myself to fall behind. In addition, if anyone takes offense to things that you read on this blog, I am sorry, I did not mean to directly offend anyone.