Switzerland is a nice place, with beautiful scenery and the people seem nice too. Everything is very neat and well-kept.  The place makes your typical neighborhood look like a hobo jungle. It’s a small country and I guess people feel they can’t let things go. Here, in the frontier days, you could just move on if you messed a place up too much. There was always more of More. There, you can’t do that. You can’t go far until you start running out of Switzerland. Well, then, it’s not too surprising that some Swiss scientists are working on a satellite that will capture space junk, and tweak it so that it falls out of earth orbit and burns up in the atmosphere. Space junk consists of the debris from old satellites, or even entire old satellites that are no long functioning. There is a lot of that stuff orbiting the earth. It’s just like humans to pollute the Last Frontier, to “go boldy where no one had gone before” and make a mess. At least there are no beer cans or styrofoam cups. But the humans who live in the Confoederatio Helvetica want to do something about it. It’s about bloody time, too.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/swiss-want-to-build-a-satellite.html