
Having dumped enormous amounts of plastic trash into the oceans, the inhabitants of Earth have made great strides toward
trashing space. This week, two satellites collided in a "
catastrophic event."
David Wright at the Union of Concerned Scientists' Global Security said the collision had possibly generated tens of thousands of particles larger than 1 centimeter (half an inch), any of which could significantly damage or even destroy a satellite.
Wright, in a posting on the group's Web site, said the two large debris clouds from Tuesday's crash will spread over time, forming a shell around Earth. He likened the debris to "a shotgun blast that threatens other satellites in the region."
This was kind of inevitable, but WTF, guys?
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