Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Are We Too Late To Avoid Kessler Syndrome?" video.

@sirhandsoap3953 Capitalism is a million times more dangerous than communism, capitalism just takes longer to implode in on itself but when it does the world will change drastically, I don't remember much changing in the west when the USSR fell because it only affected them but capitalism is rubbishing green energy in support of fossil fuels, rubbishing climate change data, ignoring polluted rivers, oceans and space, ignoring health disasters like obesity. Woah betide anyone who tries to stand between a rich man and his cash cow, and so the rich will prosper until it means the end of all of us.
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@trevorjameson3213 At 52 Clooney was not too old to be an astronaut, in fact most astronauts, particularly non-mission specialists, are around that age as their experience is just as valuable as their physical fitness.
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@giggoty4926 No, so that's something we likely have in common.
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Once it gets bad enough it won't be able to be cleaned up, if we can't get into space without being shredded to pieces then we can't clean up the things that are shredding everything to pieces.
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How is that a business? "Ever wanted to spend 10 million and get nothing in return? Then pay me to clean up space."
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Let's thank American capitalist party for doing the exact same thing previously. genius!
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But millions of things criss-crossing each other a dozen times a day means collisions will be uncommon but not rare, we've already witnessed this, also any collision can increase the amount of debris up there by up to 5% that is an exponential gain that could eventually lead to a cascade where a couple million objects turn into a couple billion and render space travel to dangerous to attempt. Especially if something the size of the ISS was hit.
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@jamesnewcomer4939 When collisions happen debris flies out in every direction, much like any other catastrophic impact, maybe 40 percent will head straight into the atmosphere and 40 percent will break orbit and never be seen again but 20 percent will fly around the planet in bands of varying angles and speeds meaning that it only takes one, just one, collision to possibly create that cascade and we've already had one collision. It doesn't matter how rare the event is if that single event has the potential to become the main event, and we've already had an event. That's pretty scary, that's like fearing an extinction-event asteroid while knowing that one skipped off the atmosphere less than a decade ago.
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I've only heard people applaud Gravity, though hardcore astrophysicists can obviously see flaws, to call it the most inaccurate of all time makes you sound like it's the only space movie you've ever seen.
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