Thatglove is now joined by somuchspacetrash that scientists are warning it could bepoised totake out thesatelliteswe depend on every day -- andtrapushere on a heatingearth.
Experts are also taking a fresh look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1996 Project Orion, a "space broom" concept to fry spacetrash with ground-based lasers.
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.
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.