@b6ace204 @James Gleick As we've already seen with other LEO collisions the debris field spread can extend dramatically above the lower layers of the atmosphere. I'm not worried about a dead satellite becoming space junk. I'm worried about the excessive debris field that the inevitable collisions will create. These will be pieces of debris smaller than we can track and even with we could requiring a catalog of billions of objects which would be impossible to maintain even with all of the world compute resources put together. Just like with so much of Musk's public alpha/beta testing shit the whole "just trust me it's not that hard" isn't comforting to me one bit. I don't know why others continue to buy into it with all evidence to the contrary.