Ok, ik vind het vreemd, maar blijkbaar gebeurt dat dus gewoon. Grappig. Het vreemde vind ik dat als er iets explodeert dat het dan zo lang impact blijft hebben. Ik begrijp dat er geen weerstand is waardoor het vrij hard gaat, maar een aantal maal rond de aarde vind ik bizar.
A satellite, once destroyed, can form a catastrophic cloud of space debris. True. It wouldn’t happen as fast as in the movie, Frost says, and it wouldn’t impact quite so many satellites (more on that in #6), but a space debris event could definitely come with huge consequences.
In fact, it’s happened before. In January 2007, the Chinese unleashed more than 1,600 pieces of debris into the atmosphere when they destroyed one of their own satellites with a missile. The impact of that missile strike sent the debris into orbits much different from the original satellite’s, creating, in Frost’s words, a cloud of debris “enveloping the Earth and [continuing] to threaten any spacecraft between those two altitudes.”
Here’s one very scary thing about space debris that “Gravity” got wrong: Frost says that it can move so fast that astronauts wouldn’t even see it. Holes would just mysteriously appear in the equipment around them.
