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2 posted on 01/16/2015 11:57:12 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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*laugh* Yes, that’s pretty much how it looks up there now, as anyone who cares enough to look or whose business requires dealing with it already can verify.


3 posted on 01/16/2015 12:03:31 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them-)
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From the "Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy":

"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."

While this is a little out of date, there are about 1100 satellites in space.

These vary in size, with the largest being the ISS, but many are the size of a large vehicle. Imagine only 1100 cars on the surface of the earth. The mean distance between these cars would be about 700 miles. Now go into space, with low earth orbit, medium earth orbit, and geosynchronous orbit, and the mean distance is much more than 700 miles.

So it is not really LA traffic in space, yet.

4 posted on 01/16/2015 12:18:30 PM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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