Creating the perfect plotline for a future "Rocky" film set in space, Russian and American communication satellites have collided about 500 miles above Siberia.

The destroyed American satellite serviced the Pentagon -- meaning this crash would have had the world stocking their bunkers if it had happened in 1985. So far, there is no talk of foul play. Russian and U.S. space agencies are working together to navigate other spacecraft around the dangerous cloud of wreckage currently roaming the skies like a surly garbage gang looking for trouble.

There are at least 8,000 man-made objects circling Earth, so it's a surprise this is the first space collision of its kind. Experts say fallout from the wreck doesn't endanger Earth, but it wouldn't hurt to sit in your bathtub wearing a pith helmet ... just in case.