[Telepathic Intruder]

One collision and fragmentation can greatly increase the amount of space debris. It could possibly set off a domino effect as orbital debris increases exponentially with each impact.

[higgmeister]

One collision and fragmentation can greatly increase the amount of space debris. It could possibly set off a domino effect as orbital debris increases exponentially with each impact.

Way back when, I read a science fiction story where Canada, in order to thwart global nuclear destruction, drilled holes in the permafrost, dropped charges into them and filled the rest with scrap metal and blew it into the atmosphere.   That ended all space travel and ICBM launches.