Imagine life without the internet, TV, or GPS. Sounds scary? The Kessler Syndrome could make it happen! Discover how growing space debris threatens to knock out satellites and disrupt our everyday lives. Can scientists stop this cosmic catastrophe before it's too late? Watch now to find out!
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00:00Imagine waking up one day to no internet, no TV, no phone calls.
00:04Sounds impossible, right?
00:06Well, it could become a reality,
00:08thanks to something called the Kessler syndrome.
00:11You might have seen this dramatic scene in the movie Gravity,
00:14but it's not just Hollywood fiction.
00:16Scientists believe this could actually happen.
00:19Here's the deal.
00:20Right now, over 10,000 satellites orbit Earth,
00:24and that's just the beginning.
00:26Add millions of pieces of space junk flying around,
00:28and you've got a serious problem.
00:31Collisions between this debris can trigger a domino effect,
00:34called the Kessler syndrome,
00:35that creates more and more debris.
00:38And if this spiral continues, it could knock out our satellites.
00:41No satellites means no Wi-Fi, no TV, no GPS,
00:45no weather updates, nothing.
00:47It would completely change life as we know it.
00:50But there's hope.
00:51Scientists are working on ways to clean up space,
00:54like recycling old satellites
00:56or safely burning them up in the atmosphere.
00:58If we act fast,
01:00we can stop the Kessler syndrome before it's too late.
01:02The question is, will we?