New Plan To Remove Orbiting Space Debris: A Giant Harpoon

UK scientists are developing the whaling-inspired technology. When we shoot something into space, we leave stuff behind; that stuff becomes space junk. It's a real problem when we're trying to shoot more stuff into space and risk running into other stuff we shot into space. New solution: space harpoons! Al Jazeera explains: U.K. scientists want to build another satellite that can harpoon space debris and reel it down into the atmosphere, where it'll burn up. They're hoping to get the program sta...