[Army Air Corps]

Collisions, explosions and lost or discarded material from space flights and rockets has resulted in the atmosphere resembling a junk yard with potentially millions of pieces of metal travelling in permanent orbit 20,000 miles above the Earth.

Um, the atmosphere doesent extend to 20,000 miles. Even LEO is outside the atmosphere.

[Habibi]

“Um, the atmosphere doesent extend to 20,000 miles.”

Agreed. This is so sad though. I had thought that science training in the British primary schools was more rigorous than this. Even out here in the woods in Colorado, our second graders are aware of this. It would also appear that the journalistic standards in Britain have kept pace with their primary schools.