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LastDemocratInSC

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1. Light pollution is a problem but there's a much larger problem, too.

Reply to Jim__ (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 03:25 PM

Oct 2024

We're sleep walking into a disaster with 10s of thousands of satellites in low earth orbit.

The Kessler syndrome is a cascade of satellite and debris collisions that could occur, and probably will occur at some point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

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China's 'Thousand Sails' joins Starlink as the latest mega-satellite constellation in orbit [View all] Jim__ Oct 2024 OP

Light pollution is a problem but there's a much larger problem, too. LastDemocratInSC Oct 2024 #1

Beat me to it. One more thing where international cooperation is needed to stave off disaster, only ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2024 #2

at some point in the near future, there will be a disastrous cascading effect of collision failures. it won't be pretty. Javaman Oct 2024 #3