A war in space would be utterly disastrous for human civilization - the resulting cascade of orbital debris would confine us to Earth for a long time, not to me

A war in space would be utterly disastrous for human civilization - the resulting cascade of orbital debris would confine us to Earth for a long time, not to mention destroying or disabling the satellites on which so much of our infrastructure depends. A recent edition of BBC Horizon highlighted the problems of space junk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0656dbj http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0656dbj