https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Collisions are bad.
They say that a hunk of junk kind of whacked a Chinese satellite. I bet there might be more to it.
Layman’s question: Do all launches into space, and the satellites thereof, orbit in the same general direction?
Waiting on the first ‘astronut’ to get whacked by all the debris. A paint particle traveling at speed would make a big hole.