Scientists have been wrong before!

In fact 99 per cent of the times, they are wrong with the rest of the 1 per cent changing the world.

But this time their prediction may just be too damn honest to take a chance.

A Russian scientist has predicted that space junk - the man made objects surrounding our exosphere - may have reached such density, that it can trigger a war between nations.

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According to a report published in The Guardian, these scientists have claimed that little space debris floating around earth have enough power to destroy satellites and if such damage is induced to military satellites, conflict is unavoidable.

Here is a video which shows the real spurt in the growth of space debris in the past 70 years:

As you see, those of us waiting for some higher intelligence beings to land in Area 52 or even Gorakhpur - must expect them to first spot us and then try to clear their way to us. Which they may not; if they are really intelligent!

In his paper, soon to published in the Acta Astronautica journal, Russian Scientist Vitaly Adushkin says that such debri posed a “special political danger” and “may provoke political or even armed conflict between space-faring nations.

The owner of the impacted and destroyed satellite can hardly quickly determine the real cause of the accident.”

Adushkin adds that in recent decades there have been repeated sudden failures of defence satellites which have never been explained. But there are only two possibilities, he claims: either unregistered collisions with space debris, or an aggressive action by an adversary. “This is a politically dangerous dilemma,” he calls them.

The Guardian also noted that NASA and Roscosmos track more than 23,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 cm but there can trillions of smaller particles out there which cause a great threat when they combine and travel together at speeds exceeding 30,000 mph.