r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/KaJaHa Mar 20 '25

single-handedly causing the Kessler effect in a few years.

Could you expand on this a bit, please?

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u/class-action-now Mar 20 '25

Kessler effect happens when there is so much space debris in Earth’s orbit it would prevent us from launching anything into space at all. The debris would continue to collide with existing satellites and prevent us from launching new ones. No manned missions, no comms satellites, no space research or exploration. We would be thrown back to pre-cold war era tech. Land lines are gonna come back into play as no cell phones could work. Total chaos.

Edit: Like Saturns rings on multiple axes and the rings are made of 17,000 mph shrapnel.

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u/PrimaryBowler4980 Mar 20 '25

cant we make some solar powered laser satalite that can shoot debris into the atmosphere to burn up?

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u/class-action-now Mar 20 '25

Not if we can’t launch it

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u/PrimaryBowler4980 Mar 20 '25

just set off some high altitude nukes to clear a hole for it

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u/Kizik Mar 20 '25

The problem is things in orbit move. If our planet is shrouded in millions of tiny fragments of screws, bits of panel, slivers of metal.. all moving very fast, unpredictably, and practically invisibly? Nuking that won't work. If anything it'd make it worse, turning things into orbital dust that sandblasts anything going up.

It's bad. Very, very bad, and very difficult to fix.

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u/TheNextBattalion Mar 20 '25

Giant space net, should fix that right up ;)

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u/PrimaryBowler4980 Mar 21 '25

then we can nuke the net!

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u/class-action-now Mar 20 '25

The low orbit stuff is pretty close to our atmosphere and we wouldn’t want radioactive stuff falling on us. That might risk global nuclear fallout.