The collision probability of two defunct space objects is now more than 20%. This is bad. We’ve got too much stuff in space. https://twitter.com/eu_sst/status/1379828862478131201

This is so bad. It only takes a grain of rice sized piece of debris to significantly damage the International Space Station. The size of the potential debris here is large. https://twitter.com/eu_sst/status/1380443036862316545?s=21

I’m not sure we are going to learn our lesson with this until we’re rounding the corner to Kessler syndrome (which frankly we already are) and then it’ll be too late. Let’s hope these objects miss each other.

Something to keep in mind is that if we accumulate enough debris in space that our dead sats are colliding it could make launching ANYTHING from the earth nearly impossible if not impossible. No more sats. No more space program. No more climate change monitoring.

We worship leaders who talk a big game about taking us off planet to save our species but no ones going anywhere if we can’t leave Earth. And yet Starlink and Bezos’s future constellation are both contributing to the likelihood of this reality.

It’s very serious and only becoming more so every single day. All it takes is one bad collision to start the process.

If they miss it will be by only approx 21 meters. 21 meters! Jesus