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Satellites don’t just spontanously burst into 100 pieces.
Russia could really just please stop being a dick
There are enough mundane explanations for why a satellite can, in fact, burst into 100 pieces.
would love to know. because they really don’t tend to do that, unless they are in the process of crashing into the thicker athmosphere. And that was not the case, as it’s sharing a close enough orbit to the iss
Well, you see, the front fell off.
They sure don’t tend to do that, but there are still mundane explanations for this. An unintentional collision between the satellite and another object being one of them.
“I find it hard to believe they would use such a big satellite as an ASAT target,” McDowell said.
Want to share?
Considering all the ways they’ve been ridiculously incompetent in their invasion of Ukraine, I could actually see this incident being due to ineptitude.
The front fell off
We are so going to get Kessler syndrome. I hate humans
Fun fact! They think that because of some kind of electromagnetic issue, Kessler syndrome or its precursors could maybe destroy the ozone layer too.
Not because of Kessler syndrome, just your run of the mill space debris reentering the atmosphere and increasing the amounts of certain metals up there that contribute to ozone depletion. In other words, that may well happen even if we’re lucky and avoid Kessler syndrome.
Thanks, Elon! Great job once again!
Brb buying stocks in sunscreen companies.
We are so going to get Kessler syndrome. I hate humans
Future spaceship pilots on breaking Earth atmo:
Isn’t this sort of what that Sandra Bullock space movie was about?
Yes, but with real physics, more damage for us all and neither Sandra nor George were asked to act.
I thought it was about making me lose 1,5 hrs of my life. Wikipedia page agrees with you.
Having not seen it, I lost nothing. Except the time I spent watching tons of other boring movies.
There were some great visuals.
Yes. And then Keanu Reeves drives the ISS to LAX
Just more Russian incompetence on full display.
Seems like someone pressed the wrong ‘self-destruct’ button
It was a really poor design decision making it look so much like the ‘other-destruct’ button
