“The division of the world among the international trusts has begun. The division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”

— Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

that's before the junk starts raining down on our heads!!

That's already happening: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/spacex-cbc-debris-space-junk-sask-1.7231571

1-3 of these satellites re-enter everyday.

@planet4589 and @sundogplanets post about it often too.

oh, I know full well! I just meant, their issues were bad, and the space junk falling is maybe more terrible! and also, for that matter, that we're putting so much junk up there that we may not be able to fly anything through it soon!