Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "Russians In Space...Well, Maybe Not Much Longer || Peter Zeihan" video.

The real goal has been and is population reduction for future economy. It's a natural resource vs natural population thing. Show me a national government and I'll show you an institution that is working on reducing the number of children born in it's jurisdiction.
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Space is massive, you are much more likely to have submarines that randomly run into each other.
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@ChucksSEADnDEAD damn, I should have used your analogy... It's more likely that bullets accidentally collide in the atmosphere than artificial satellites collide outside of it. The sheer volume of space is immense, unimaginable, vast beyond comprehension. The Earth itself is tiny compared to the space between the Earth and Moon. Satellites will collide given eternity. But if it happens in the next thousand years, then it was certainly intentional and not an accident.
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@tyharris9994 I think your net will have too large of holes. Planes are awfully thin. You might get a constellation of close orbit satellites or two, maybe three with extreme precision and four with luck, but that's it for the next few million years. Space is massive, unless there was coordination or mathematical orbiting reasons (for very specific locations at that) then the odds of a car sized object to make a long term threat are negligible. Virtually impossible. They are going to shatter into tiny debris, the debris will lose mass compared to the original, the smaller mass will require greater speed to remain in orbit, their orbit will decay more quickly. It won't be long before the atmosphere creates too much drag and they are pulled back into Earth. They (the intentional collision devices) would have to be moving in retroorbit or at least some angular orbit to intercept and the shrapnel would be thrown in a direction that is incongruent with orbit, the Earth's rotation would cause them to fall into the Earth. Any that are moving fast enough to gain orbit of their own will either slowly have their orbit altered by tidal forces between the Earth and Moon, or will fall into the Earth or less likely the moon. It will be difficult to get orbital velocity instead of escape velocity from the original collision due to the necessary vector of possible collision. I am not too worried about accidental space debris. It's impossible to create a large net that surrounds the planet thickly enough to create a real obstacle without using planetary volumes and mass. If we are at risk of the entire continent of Africa being converted into debris and shot into space then I will change my mind.
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