Americans will use anything other than the metric system.

Americans will use literally anything except the metric system 😔

Two of them is roughly the size of a pickup truck...

Like, it's volume, they could say X gallons, but it would be hard for people to visualize. So people use an example most readers would be familiar with.

Have you honestly never wondered why journalists use random things? Or has no one taken the time to answer before?

It's been common literally for centuries before either of us were born, but most likely all of human existence. Just with animals like buffalo instead of pickup trucks.

About 0.000000281 Saarländer

falling from the the sky and burning is a good thing

Jury is still out on this one.

“We’re really changing the composition of the stratosphere into a state that we’ve never seen before,” said John Dykema, an applied physicist at SEAS, who warns that scientists today poorly understand many of the impacts.

https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/burning-satellites-in-the-stratosphere-emerging-questions-for-climate/

falling from the sky onto things is a problem tho

They probably burn up also

As an atheist that would legitimately make me turn Christian.

If that happened, you could not convince me that we aren’t all extras in Idiocracy 2.

I love how this is simultaneously a great and horrible photoshop. Like the splice is obvious in the foreground but I can't see it in the background at all. Like I have no idea how this was done.

just some random capitalist here

It's impossible to regulate space. Even if your government put restrictions on putting things in orbit, the company could just launch under the flag of somewhere else. Blanket banning of commercial space programs would require a universal treaty or would lead to an act of war. Im not saying the US shouldn't try and do something about space trash, but it's not as simple as "just ban corporations from space"

Banana is metric, Americans use raccoon penis.

The syndrome is kind of already in effect it's just in very early cycles. It was a few months ago the ISS made emergency maneuvers to avoid debris and a few weeks ago some telecom satellite lost comms and they assume from debris. Won't be long as more debris multiplies that it becomes unmanageable and untraceable so bad that your scenario starts happening.

Although realistically with the strides we've made in orbital liftoff weights they'll probably start armoring shit.