We don't even want to think about how much it's going to cost to get a refuse collector up there and get this mess tidied up. But then we suspect that's the point. Although it doesn't quite look like this, there is far more trash floating around the Earth in space than most of us realize.
Broken satellites, pieces of old rocket launches, broken up fragments of abandoned space stations, even tools dropped by astronauts - it's all still up there, spinning around at thousands of miles an hour. If you drop something in orbit it doesn't drift out into space, it just becomes a tiny satellite, whizzing around forever more. Some scientists are worried that the density of space trash will one day become a hazard to communications satellites, as well as new rockets trying to get through the mess on the way to the stars.