What a load of crap. Information is sorted by OPERATIONAL STATUS not functionality. Since almost all of those birds are communication, weather, geostudies type, where does the "big brother" FUD come in?
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What's up with that globe? The oceans are invisible but the far hemisphere is all wrong. It appears to be a view centered on the atlantic ocean but rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I don't understand.
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Maximum Crap and total incomplete...f.e Hellas Sat 2 is missing (Greece's Satellite) and possibly others(?) ...and yes what's with the "Big Brother"thing...maybe gizmodo should check more carefully info posted and not only judging by a -somewhat- pretty pic.
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*Big brother* is often used as a metonymy for government, so cool yer jets, cadets! Anyway, I thought it was interesting to see the ratios of junk to functional equipment.
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Why do China and Russia have exactly the same amount of orbiting space debris? Is that a mistake?
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I don't disagree with any of the criticisms of the infographic here, but who is really going to remember the details of this thing in a week? I basically take away what I already assumed. There are a lot of satellites, and most of them American or Russian.
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Cool stuff …………
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