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\nIn the middle of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo: the most remote location on Earth. This super isolated spot is home to a graveyard filled not with human remains, but hundreds of broken up spacecraft and satellites. And after more...\nIn the middle of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo: the most remote location on Earth. This super isolated spot is home to a graveyard filled not with human remains, but hundreds of broken up spacecraft and satellites. And after more than five decades of dumping our space junk there, some scientists have started to worry about the consequences.

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1:25 Our label says \"Africa,\" but that's actually South America. It is the South Pacific Gyre after all! Thank you to everyone who pointed this out.\n
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2025
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