Yes, that was the Chinese. IIRC that single satellite interception test increased the number of dangerous debris in LEO by 30% at the time. Absolutely reckless idiocy. Probably greenlit by some politician who had no idea of the consequences and was just obsessed with making the world "respect" China.

Probably impossible to say as nobody can forsee our future space traffic, but at some point it will get more difficult, as the risk of getting hit from tiny bits of metal that fly with an insane speed will get higher and higher when leaving orbit.

This debris is dangerous to our astronauts and satellites already, so maybe instead of thinking of year XY when we can't travel anymore, think of a rising chart. The more shit we shoot in space, no matter for what purpose, the quicker the line on the chart will grow and the more risky it will get.

India shot one with a rocket just to see if they can. What a degenerate species we are.

Some people can’t even look after a goldfish

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That’s not a correct deduction you made. The numbers are correct.

The reason is: 1: The Philippines import waste from other countries to recycle it, but they don’t recycle it. 2: The Philippines don’t recycle as much as china. 3: The Philippines more actively use the ocean as a dumping ground for waste.

People on earth don’t care about the shit we do to the earth. Why the fuck they gonna care about shit off the earth?

Isn’t it always unprecedented??????

It’s not like we’re polluting less, every single second we add more to it, so every single second, it’s at and “unprecedented” level.

It's the Philippines or some shit.

Nobody listens to scientists unfortunately. Russians even destroyed a satellite for propaganda reasons.

Considering all that snorkeling gear is also made of plastic too. I'm an avid diver

And they want to clean up space junk in the other thread.

I can? Is it gremlins?

Quite sure they have been calling for the clean up of ocean plastic too, but just look at the other thread and you know where this is going.

Yes it does, but carbon is largely stored in “the tree”. Also you can really have the leaves without the rest of the plant right?

Can’t even pick up trash on earth and now you want us to clean up space? Come on man I’m going to have no weekend at all at this rate

My uncle had a kid at 63. You've got years yet

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What if, we just shot all the space junk at the sun?

As u/LaughRune said above you; we are the trailer park of planets.

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I'm a fan of these kinds of solutions in general. If you set up the system to properly reward the behavior you want then it takes a whole lot less effort to manage.

Well, you *could* but it would be very expensive because the rapid dispersal means you'd need so much of it do do anything that you'd require thousands of rockets just hauling gas to orbit. While that would drive down the cost of rockets individually, no one has that kind of money to spend.

Make it into Giant space balloons that block the sun over the north and south poles to lower the overall temperature of the Earth.

Watch us try to blow it up and it becomes EVEN CRAAAAZIER SPACE JUNK!