🧵 Just watched this last night
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 17:03:43 UTC No. 16458410
The entire plot wouldn't have happened if a piece of space debris hasn't collided with their fuel supply.
I actually read the Wiki article for Kessler Syndrome and was baffled that scientists are apparently more concerned with space junk damaging satellites than with the possibility of all that trash making it impossible to get off this planet for centuries.
Why is everyone involved in space travel paying so little attention to this problem compared to science-fiction writers?
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 17:29:05 UTC No. 16458462
because they're the ones creating the problem
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 18:57:20 UTC No. 16458687
>>16458410
Orbit is slightly larger than the Earth's surface. There's like 25,000 pieces of space junk. That's like 8000 square miles per piece. That's a lot of space. Space is mostly space
>why do fiction writers that need a plot device focus on a problem more than scientists
You tell me genius
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:09:57 UTC No. 16458710
>>16458410
That movie was INDESCRIBABLY stupid.
Anonymous at Sat, 2 Nov 2024 11:26:13 UTC No. 16459544
>>16458410
kessler syndrome is not real
this is like complaining about cosmic ray bit flips