[stugrey]

Unfortunately, to show the Earth and the orbital positions to scale, it was not possible to show the pieces of debris to scale.

[neffy]

Yes, sorry. The not-to-scale aspect meant it jumped the shark almost immediately for me as well. As small as possible, following the initial display of the object, might have conveyed the idea better - and that would have made the Chinese explosion a little more fun.

[DanBC]

But see also the NASA visualisation on the NASA orbital debris site: http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/

[gjem97]

I understand the technical limitations, but it appears that you have an axe to grind: sounding the alarm about space debris. In that context it seems disingenuous to show space as more crowded than it is.