When I was a teenager, I had a very messy room.
But it wasn’t because I was lazy.
Well, yes, I was lazy, but that wasn’t why. The way I figured, my parents were less likely to come into my room if they had to do a ballet-dance across the floor to keep from stepping on anything. Thus, mess.
Which is why I’m really not too concerned about this:
This computer generated image, supplied by NASA, shows objects that are currently being tracked in Earth orbit. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent each item. The orbital debris dots are scaled according to the image size of the graphic to optimize their visibility and are not scaled to Earth. This image provide a good visualization of where the greatest orbital debris populations exist. The space shuttle Atlantis is flying at about 350 miles above Earth, an area littered with more dangerous space junk than the lower orbits where shuttles normally park at the international space station.
(AP Photo/NASA)
When the alien invaders come, most of their ships will be destroyed simply by colliding with our junk. See? Problem solved.
Now pick up your damn socks, and let’s go over our emergency zombie attack plan one more time.
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When we were little, your dad, Uncle Jerry, I, and a thriving family of Norway rats were all housed in the same room. (I slept with a knife for self-defense.) Besides the holes in the walls, one of which I created by being punched by Jerry and launched right through the sheet rock, there were piles and piles of crap. Your dad, in a philosophical moment, declared that he wasn’t worried about losing anything. He figured that the missing object would eventually recycle back to the top.