It’s easier to consistently hit satellites than people, actually. Satellites have a fixed trajectory, a public location and can’t exactly hide. People are small, annoying, constantly moving, intelligent, underground, hidden, etc. I’d bet Russia could easily take out satellites, but so could a lot of countries

Just wait till you hear about what people have done with GPS!

I think the mistake people can make with findings like this is jumping from the reasonable “this new finding unlocks another small puzzle piece in a very large puzzle” to “this is the missing piece!”

That’s anecdotal tho