"A situation arose linked to unidentified 'space trash' passing very close to the space station," the Russian space agency had earlier explained.

“与空间站擦身而过的未确定‘太空垃圾’引发了这个情况。”俄罗斯太空总数不久前解释道。

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That glove is now joined by so much space trash that scientists are warning it could be poised to take out the satellites we depend on every day -- and trap us here on a heating earth.

现在已经有这么多的太空垃圾和那个手套结伙搭伴，科学家们警告这些太空垃圾可能使维系我们日常生活运转的诸多卫星失灵，甚至把我们困在这个日益升温的地球。

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To get rid of trash from the ISS, astronaut load it into empty cargo capsules and release it into space.

为了清除国际空间站的垃圾，宇航员将其装进空的货舱里并将其扔到太空中。

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Experts are also taking a fresh look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1996 Project Orion, a "space broom" concept to fry space trash with ground-based lasers.

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Experts say retaining such data would be prohibitively expensive since the unallocated space is essentially a trash bin that is altered each time a key is tapped.

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Instead of backing up data to an external hard drive, a chore as popular in our home as taking out the trash, we staked out disk space on each machine and opened it to the other computers on the home front.

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