Well, the next day I called the Naval HQ in Washington, D.C. at the suggestion of the local activists, a wonderful group called Environmental Health Coalition. So while I agree with Carol about the need to prevent the weaponization of space, I think it is preposterous to expect that all the space-based hoopla that goes on now can be adequately replaced with civilian applications. There will have to be some level of defunding. Just a vacuum, and a whole lot of very fast-moving space debris. That is the other problem I wanted to make you aware of.
Space debris is old junk that space travelers put in space and have no use for.
There are literally millions of pounds of space debris in orbit around Earth right now. Some of it is nuclear. Nuclear engines, mostly put there by Russia. And many assorted plutonium thermal heaters and other small units. That is why right now, the thing that needs to be done, is that all nukes must be banned from space.