The elevator was there when it was originally announced.
replyThere's no Kessler Syndrome where Starlink is.
You'd know this if you read Kessler's first paper. It's online.
i.e if every single Starlink satellite crashes into another you won't get Kessler Syndrome.
And the same it true for the planned Kuiper.
First of all, yes I know about the elevator hence why I mentioned it, you know, first of all it's not that safe to be going down an elevator from what is basically a multiple stories high building while in space (#1) and (#2) why would you add complexity/failure points on purpose if your mission was being multiplanetary?
replyThe spacecraft wasn't designed with humans in mind first.
And second:
This is a paper by Kessler himself:
https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/3...