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To: Fungi

What about the geo-stationary ones at 22k mis.? Won’t some of them drift off into space?


11 posted on 11/22/2015 10:06:27 AM PST by Arlis ( A "Sacred Cow" Tipping Christian)
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To: Arlis

Not if by some measure they exceed the escape velocity of earth’s gravity.


13 posted on 11/22/2015 10:21:42 AM PST by Fungi
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To: Arlis

Eventually it will become profitable for someone to go up and collect all that stuff.

Just a matter of when.


15 posted on 11/22/2015 12:10:28 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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