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...ever walked through a swarm of gnats at a picnic, you have some idea of what it's like to navigate the mass of debris that circles our planet in low-Earth orbit. Space planners have long warned that the growing belt of cosmic junk would eventually lead to collisions, and on Tuesday it happened, when an American satellite and a defunct Russian satellite totaled each other 500 miles above Siberia. This has sparked new worries that space is simply becoming too dangerous a place to travel. Things aren't nearly that severe yet - but they're getting worse...
...think those tiny pieces of junk can't do much harm, think again. According to a back-of-the-envelope rule the Apollo astronauts used, given the speeds involved in traveling in low-Earth orbit, a one-tenth-in. bit of chaff would collide with an oncoming spacecraft with as much force as a bowling ball traveling 60 m.p.h...
...lower orbits, colliding with objects moving at different speeds along the way. Similarly, the International Space Station and its three astronauts do, in theory, lie in the path of the debris created by Tuesday's collision, and while international space officials believe the danger to the crew is low, they do not rule...
They found that patients with high levels of cotinine were 44% more likely to show signs of cognitive impairment than those with very low levels. There was also "an exposure-response gradient" between cotinine concentration and poor mental performance: the more cotinine in a subject's saliva, the worse that subject performed on tests measuring mental agility, memory and clear thinking. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...That inside game includes the team’s leading scorer, sophomore Emma Markley. Markley is averaging nearly 13 points and seven boards per game. And sophomore Claire Wheeler will look to help out her teammate on the glass down low...