A news report today claims a European tech company called
Astrium is proposing a space harpoon to clean up old satellites and “space
junk” in orbit. But I’m not falling for that old ruse, man. They admit it’s a
harpoon, so they’re obviously trying to skirt Earth whale protection laws by
hunting space whales! Hey, man: save the space whales! (I’m surprised Japan
didn’t develop the space harpoon first. But then again, they still go whaling
on Earth, so I guess they didn’t feel it was necessary to hunt space whales
yet.)
Here’s the spaced out story:
