Satellite crash: oh, no the sky’s full of shotguns

News just in of a crash of two satellites in orbit above the earth.

But just what were those satellites carrying? Hmm?

“This is an event that really makes us realize that things are not so straightforward as we originally thought,” said Francisco Diego, a senior research fellow in physics and astronomy at University College London.

“The problem with collisions like this is that they don’t destroy satellites, they just create smaller ones, like fast moving shotguns, that are potentially much more damaging,” said Diego.

A sky full of fast moving shotguns.  Surreal.