{"id":98,"date":"2015-05-07T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2016-01-18T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T14:13:37","slug":"clouds-of-broken-visions-lay-in-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/98\/clouds-of-broken-visions-lay-in-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds of broken visions lay in wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When satellites let out their final breath<\/p>\n<p>They must be mapped and never left in peace,<\/p>\n<p>For fear of their reprisal after death<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The latent destruction caused by a piece<\/p>\n<p>Of broken manmade construct is so vast,<\/p>\n<p>And with each jettison it does increase<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All remains less than grapefruits are miscast;<\/p>\n<p>To track them is numerically intense,<\/p>\n<p>With many nameless objects now amassed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But likelihood has come to our defence<\/p>\n<p>By treating these small splinters as a cloud<\/p>\n<p>And using drag to model if they\u2019re dense<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Behind these stats new missions can stand proud.<\/p>\n<p>From exospheric fragments we can\u2019t see,<\/p>\n<p>Our imitation moons will not be cowed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But floating still across the starry sea<\/p>\n<p>More clouds of broken visions lay in wait;<\/p>\n<p>And through the net slips some elapsed debris<\/p>\n<p>That longs to consign others to its fate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/512px-Debris-GEO1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/512px-Debris-GEO1280-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Space debris seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (Photo Credit: NASA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Space debris seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (Photo Credit: NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/text\/poetic-form-terza-rima\" target=\"_blank\">terza rima<\/a> about<a href=\"http:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/383307\/\" target=\"_blank\"> this piece of research<\/a> on mapping the small debris from satellite explosions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When satellites let out their final breath They must be mapped and never left in peace, For fear of their reprisal after death &nbsp; The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,44,3,54,79],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-poems","tag-poetry","tag-satellites","tag-science","tag-space","tag-waste","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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