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    BBC News (UK)‏Verified account @BBCNews Sep 19

    The satellite that can clean up space junk 🛰️🕸️🌌 http://bbc.in/2NqYUPg pic.twitter.com/aubVtM9asv

    6:22 AM - 19 Sep 2018
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      1. War Studies Glasgow‏ @UofGWarstudies Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        170,000,000 pieces #space junk. Some small as paint fleck, but potential significant damage: orbital speed 28,000 km per hour. Experiment important for cleanup, but also strategic implications - long history #ColdWar military thinking about satellite capture.

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      1. Ben Camfield  🌹‏ @bencam18 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        Can we clean up the junk here first or

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      2. Bilstar‏ @Bilstar Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        Guys and gals, you haven't said anything about it in that vid! It says there's lots of space junk (true) and there is, at some point, a net. They magic the net up there? Retrieve the net? Multiple nets? What's the net made of? Poor vid. 😞

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      3. Kara Richey‏ @CubsGirl79 Sep 19
        Replying to @Bilstar @BBCNews

        That’s what I was thinking!!! So what? Now they’re probably like - Yay!!! Our bet worked!!! Hey, can someone hand us our net, please? 🤪😂

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      4. Kara Richey‏ @CubsGirl79 Sep 19
        Replying to @CubsGirl79 @Bilstar @BBCNews

        Net worked* dang autocorrect

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      5. Nic Accas‏ @Nic_Acquarola Sep 19
        Replying to @CubsGirl79 @Bilstar @BBCNews

        Simple proof read....it's not hard.

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      6. Bilstar‏ @Bilstar Sep 20
        Replying to @Nic_Acquarola @CubsGirl79 @BBCNews

        Bad day, Nic?

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      1. Peter‏ @micraster2014 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews @BBCWorld

        Hope the media giants are contributing to this...

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      1. Eduardo Ashcroft‏ @DoucheBag1973 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        If Dyson did satellites..

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      1. Limibd303‏ @Limmieboydphot1 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews @BBCWorld

        Well that's pretty nifty!!!

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      1. Jon Smith‏ @smithy_82 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        So we destroyed the seas with our rubbish and now we are destroying space aswell. What a gift to the universe the human race really is!

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      1. Ben Forrest‏ @Bennyboyf1 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        Waiting for the Tractor beam jokes......pic.twitter.com/ipHbmj3EU6

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      1. Teel1‏ @Teel18 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        Interesting Meanwhile on planet earth A #windrush victim dies A car drives at people at a Mosque When I was young you reported the news now you just make sure you keep the far right tories and ukippers happy

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      1. Bun E. Brewster‏ @njrabit Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews @KTLA

        Cool, cool.. Now how about inventing a satellite that sweeps up the rubbish people and sends them off to space.

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      1. Paul M Winstanley‏ @PaulMWinstanley Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        The fact humanity has managed to cause such a mess up in space, says something negative about us as a whole.

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      1. Eugene Kusinski‏ @EugeneKusinski Sep 20
        Replying to @BBCNews @BBCWorld

        The oceans, space, where have we not polluted!

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      1. Sonya Lindee‏ @EyeLubSharks Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews @BBCWorld

        Some are willing to spend thousands on a game system . What if you made a game in Xbox or PlayStation that would net garbage and make the ☀️ the end destination.

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      1. Thomas Jon Harrison‏ @ThomasJonHarris Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews @BBCWorld

        Whatever happened to the Klingon way of disintigrating the space debris with a phaser and plasma torpedoes?

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      1. totallyxwired‏ @totallyxwired Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews

        Musk flytips a car into space and everyone thinks he is a hero

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      1. Limibd303‏ @Limmieboydphot1 Sep 19
        Replying to @BBCNews @BBCWorld

        I hate to be bearer of bad news but. This is not a new invention.

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