Never stop sweating (but don't let them see you do it)

"It hasn’t happened yet, at least as far as we know, but researchers say that if the world continues its pattern of prolific littering outside the atmosphere, there’s a 1-in-10 chance over the next decade that someone down here dies because of some junk up there."

– It's from a Washington Post newsletter which is online here. You may or may not be able to read it, depending on some rule I don't yet fully understand. 

Either way, it's pretty cool, right? There once was a TV show called, I think, Dead Like Me, in which Our Heroine was killed by a toilet fixture that had fallen out of a space station: Something like that could happen to you. 1-in-10.

The Op-Ed piece referred to here, written for the Post by some guy from MIT, also points out that most space junk falls in the Southern hemisphere, even though it is boosted aloft from the Northern. This is something, he says, that should be fixed.

Fair is fair.