Did "Space Junk" destroy a satellite?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292767/Did-space-junk-destroy-Russian-satellite-Experts-sound-alarm-growing-cloud-debris-orbiting-planet.html

[edgineered]

1. SMH

Regarding China's destruction of a satellite:

The country used a missile to destroy a weather satellite more than 500 miles above the Earth in a show of military might that is thought to have added about 3,000 pieces of debris to the space junk cloud surrounding our planet.

Diplomatic documents leaked by Wikileaks later revealed that the U.S. warned China it could take military action in response to Beijing’s use of space missiles.

And it emerged that the U.S. even shot down one of its own satellites to demonstrate its ballistic power after China's missile test.

I guess we really taught them.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. Who's "permission?

Did the Xi-files-idiot-in-charge of China ask numerous military and commercial satellite agencies of the USA, Russian, Great Britain, France, Israel, India, AT&T, CNN, ABC and numerous companies "permission?" Space is a busy place...

[Prism]

3. What's impressive is that they could pinpoint it

Of all the crap swirling around, they could trace the problem back to a 2007 test.

Science and engineering are jaw-dropping to me.

But, it's a big problem. I know Gravity is fiction (and has tons of actual physics errors in it), but the thought is true. Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing in the mess we're making without too much thought.

[edgineered]

4. Long ago a down to earth decision was made

to join The Society for the Preservation of Gravity.

[Johonny]

5. Kessler effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome