Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Space Harpoon

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: