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To: ShadowAce

Pretty obvious where this is going.

Low-Earth orbits will eventually be impossible due to billions of high-velocity bits of shattered satellites, each one of which can destroy a manned spacecraft.

Oh well, they fall out of orbit fairly quickly due to atmospheric friction. Kind of like radioactive pollution. The nastier isotopes decay pretty fast. The long-lived ones aren’t nearly as dangerous.


7 posted on 05/25/2022 11:22:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Calling Captain Quark.😏


22 posted on 05/25/2022 12:43:51 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Steely Tom

It’s called Kessler Syndrome and it’s a very real concern.


23 posted on 05/25/2022 1:27:33 PM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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