Time (April 16)
There’s a “looming risk of too many satellites and debris in space.” Current counts indicate there are over 525,000 objects larger than 1 cm and over 100 million of all sizes. “That’s a huge problem, since even such small bits of scrap can carry the bang of a bullet when they’re traveling at orbital speed.” And each collision generates more “more debris clouds, which would strike still more spacecraft, leading to a chain reaction known as the Kessler syndrome that could potentially wipe out whole flocks of spacecraft in that orbital band.”
Tags: 100 million, Chain reaction, Collision, Debris, Debris clouds, Kessler syndrome, Looming, Objects, Orbital speed, Risk, Satellites, Scrap, Space, Spacecraft
Reuters (July 1)
“One way of looking at the euro zone is as a forest where dry tinder is piling up. The locals are not doing much to clear the debris, and some are wandering around with naked flames. But they know it would be foolish to throw lit matches on the forest floor.” There are rising risks of a new euro crisis, “but the conditions are probably not ripe to trigger one yet.”
Tags: Clear, Conditions, Debris, Dry tinder, Euro crisis, Flames, Foolish, Forest, https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/risk-euro-crisis-is-rising-2024-07-01/ Euro zone, Locals, Matches, Rising risks, Trigger
