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Today its some Russian debris. Next time it could just as well be debris from two Starlink satellites colliding.

We need a way to clean this stuff up which from my understanding is practically impossible. It's like collecting a few thousand pingpong balls in the ocean.

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> We need a way to clean this stuff up which from my understanding is practically impossible. It's like collecting a few thousand pingpong balls in the ocean.

There are ground-based and space-based options for deorbiting debris, but unfortunately they are "dual use" technologies that could all too easily be used against objects that aren't debris (although not very effectively).

But in a case like this, dual use doesn't result in a nuclear bomb exploding. Sure it would suck if a satellite was destroyed but it's not literally the end of the world.

Every billionaire with space capabilitys has a defacto nuke anyway. He who is out of the gravity well, has power over those who downwards dwell.

Any hobo in space with a ion-thruster and a astronomically app, can hold a planet for ransom. Space civilization, has a physics based class system..

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