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Dogs in Space
Director: Richard Lowenstein
Austrailia,1987
Set in the days when chunks of SKYLAB were expected to fall to Earth somewhere over Austrailia this film looks at the lives of post-skunk rockers pursuing their futile search for true anarchy. Michael Hutchence(R.I.P) stars as the central character, Sam; based on Sam Sejavka from the late 70’s band The Ears and later Beargarden.
Interesting entropy metaphor for a small Melbourne underground music scene or did the discovery of government secrets lead to a massive impact on the future, or was it rubbish burnt in an oven for a prank? --NOW--On the snowy steppes near Orenburg, southeast of the Ural Mountains in Siberia, teams of military search and rescue experts have spent the last month scanning the ground with metal detectors and probing the snow drifts for Russia's most advanced spy satellite, which hasn't been seen since it came down to Earth on Jan. 9th 2008. While it looks like the Russians are calling it quits the American Government reported last month of a bus-size unresponsive and out of control spy satellite rapidly descending to Earth. The Pentagon plans to shut it down next week using a tactical standard missile-3. This reasoning is due to the thousand pounds of toxic hydrazine fuel its carrying.  China is concerned, Russia cries cover-up, and America assures us there is no security issue “its really just a big thing falling to the ground…”
Only one person has ever been recorded hit by manmade space debris: in 1997 an Oklahoma woman was hit in the shoulder by a 10 x 13 cm. piece of blackened, woven metallic material that was later confirmed to be part of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket which had launched from a U.S. Air Force satellite in 1996. She was not injured. Source:TodayinScience What seemed at first to be like a simple game of Duck Hunt has become an extensive military operation, involving modified rockets control systems, hundreds of formers and experts, as well as the shiny Aegis sea-defense cruiser. The damage comes to roughly sixty-five million dollars.
The missile strike could produce 100,000 pieces of Space Junk adding to the already copious amount of objects in Earth's orbit created by humans, that no longer serve any useful purpose. Spent rocket stages, defunct satellites, explosion fragments, paint flakes, dust, and slag from solid rocket motors, coolant released by nuclear powered satellites, deliberate insertion of small needles, and other small particles. 
Space junk has become a growing concern in recent years, since collisions at orbital velocities can be highly damaging to functioning satellites and can also produce a feedback runaway scenario, also referred to as the Kessler Syndrome. Objects in orbit are frequently struck by the escalating amount of loose debris, creating even more clutter and a greater risk of further impacts eventually rendering space exploration, and even the use of satellites impossible for many generations.
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