Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>BBC has an article on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/PointNemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PointNemo</span></a>, AKA Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, AKA <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> graveyard. This is the place in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> furthest from land, in middle of the usually stormy South <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pacific</span></a>. It’s as far out there as you can get without leaving t planet: about 2,688km (1670mi) from nearest dry land. Since 1971, over 160 spacecraft have met their end in these chilly waters, from fiery public end of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mir</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> station to secret death of numerous secret spy <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satellites</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231006-the-soviet-spacecraft-cemetery-in-the-pacific" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2023100</span><span class="invisible">6-the-soviet-spacecraft-cemetery-in-the-pacific</span></a></p>