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In my opinion, the Kessler Syndrome, or a Carrington Event, are the two most underrated yet likely causes of TEOTWAWKI.
by jimmcslim 10y ago
In my opinion, the Kessler Syndrome, or a Carrington Event, are the two most underrated yet likely causes of TEOTWAWKI.
- alanh 10y agoThe End Of The World As We Know It. (I had to google. Interestingly, my Mac’s dictionary has TEOTWAWKI as an alias for “Survivalism”.)
- nathancahill 10y agoAIFF: And I feel fineeeee!!
- ddoolin 10y agoFor the uninitiated (incld. myelf...), "The end of the world as we know it."
- arijun 10y agoWhy would a Kessler cascade be so devastating? Most of our comsats and all our GPS satellites are above LEO.
- wmf 10y agoBut would it prevent launching any more?
- walrus01 10y agoIt would completely fuck up the viability of all earth-sciences and imagery satellites (Hello google earth, google maps, bing maps, etc) which mostly orbit as low as reasonably possible and in 90 degree inclined polar orbits. It would also kill Iridium (either the current generation of satellites, or the next generation which will be in generally the same orbital configuration) because it depends on low earth orbit, highly inclined polar orbit satellites. Iridium is incredibly important to maritime users and aircraft users, in addition to its massive US DoD use.
- dharma1 10y agoWhat would you say the probability of something going wrong and leading to Kessler syndrome is, if we have 4k more (or even 10-20k more) satellites? I'm sure SpaceX isn't the only player thinking of adding a lot of cheap satellites in orbit