They put a man on the Moon ...

You would think they'd have figured out a way to clean up the fucking mess they made around our world. If there are aliens who have come to our little backwater of the Milky Way, it's no wonder they haven't stopped to say "hi". They look at all the crap floating around and don't wanna be bothered with a world full of slobs.

As a dangerous chunk of debris bore down on the International Space Station on Thursday, the crew took refuge in the Russian Soyuz lifeboat in case they had to flee to Earth.

NASA said a 5-inch piece of a spent rocket motor came within striking distance of the $100-billion station. If it had hit the station, damage could have been catastrophic.

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Not only have we shitted up our world but we've turned the space around it into a landfill. Makes me proud to be a human ...

And just an addendum, NASA and the other space agencies track 18,000 pieces of man-made crap orbiting the planet.