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Kessler syndrome. It's real, but the time scale for it is a lot longer than depicted in Gravity.
Quoting: The Deplorable Astromut Awesome, thanks for weighing in with your real knowledge of the matter! Don't get me wrong, I am all for the use and exploration of space, but the more people putting stuff up there the harder it will be for them all to avoid each other, being on different networks and so on, is my theory! Quoting: RandomS Here is an example: Take lets say the whole state of Texas, all empty, no houses, mountains, water nothing, just a huge freaking nothing. Toss a fridge in a random spot. Then do it like 10000 more times. Now, tell me the odds of tossing a fridge and hit another fridge. Remember, the WHOLE state. And the proportions in space are even bigger. Quoting: MaybeTrollingU The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect, collisional cascading or ablation cascade), proposed by the NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low earth orbit (LEO) is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade where each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.[3] One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space activities and the use of satellites in specific orbital ranges infeasible for many generations. [ link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] In your scenario, every time you tossed a fridge, that fridge breaks up into a million pieces and scatters all over the place, hitting other fridges who also explode into a million pieces and scatter all over the place, until the entire state is covered with debris, and you can't drive a car through without getting it all over your tires.. ugh, messy!
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