[perilunar]

> It's scary how much stuff there is up there

No more scary than the number of airplanes in the air at any given time, which is a similar order of magnitude. flightradar24 tracks around 200k flights per day — there's probably ~10k–20k aircraft in the air at any time.

[jen_h]

True, but they can be methodically grounded if need be, and we’ve done it successfully before. We don’t have any good playbooks for clearing space debris.