eli5 why is a higher amount of space junk a problem for us? Why can’t we shoot it away with missiles?
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What do you think happens when a missile hits something?
It doesn’t vanish into the Shadow Dimension or anything like that. It just breaks up into smaller pieces, and it’s sent flying in all directions. But you’ve still got the same amount of *stuff*.
So if you try to blow up the space junk, you’re left with the same total amount of space junk, but spread across a larger number of smaller, faster-moving pieces. That only makes it harder to avoid and *more* dangerous
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