Thread by @mryawarabbas

Please take a moment to call out the casual stereotyping by @RebelWilson. Why pick Pakistan as an example of a country whose satellite could hit someone's home when the actual data shows who the real culprits are? Some stats about perpetrators of space debris/crashed satellites👇

US has the most amount of debris in space (4,037 items). Russia is second (4,035). Other culprits: France (334), India (81), Japan (52), China and Brazil (52) and Canada (5) (source: Space-Track). This space junk orbiting Earth could seriously damage or destroy active satellites.

Business Insider also shows similar statistics (also referencing Space-Track).

Some notable examples of space junk crashing to Earth (Wikipedia):

1969: Soviet spacecraft struck the deck of a Japanese boat
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada
1979: Portions of NASA's Skylab came down over Australia

1987: Metal from Soviet Kosmos 1890 rocket landed between two homes in Lakeport, California
1991: Salyut 7 (Soviet) reentered over Capitán Bermúdez in Argentina.
1997: An Oklahoma woman was hit, without injury by debris from Delta II rocket which launched a US Air Force satellite

2001: Star 48 (US) rocket crashed in a Saudi Arabian desert.
2003: 83,000+ debris pieces & remains of 6 astronauts, recovered from Texas, US.
2020: Debris from Long March-5B rocket crashed over Africa & the Atlantic Ocean
2021: A Falcon 9 (US) 2nd stage reentered over Washington.

Summary: Please get over the culture of casually stereotyping Pakistan (or any other country for that matter) for no logical reason. It is called intolerance and prejudice. It is no longer considered cool, even in Hollywood 🙏