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I'm a big fan of the idea of competition when it comes to internet providers, so this is good news. I can't help but worry about where this ends though. 100,00
by t0mbstone 6y ago
I'm a big fan of the idea of competition when it comes to internet providers, so this is good news.
I can't help but worry about where this ends though. 100,000 satellites orbiting the sky? Will our sky just be a bunch of moving dots, like you see in some sci-fi movies?
- onetimemanytime 6y agoChina will no doubt follow with tens of thousands. Maybe India, Japan etc too
- VectorLock 6y agoCould Kessler Syndrome become a real thing?
- klohto 6y agoThey're nowhere the altitude to do any harm.
- penagwin 6y agoThis is in LEO so the damage would be limited - these are designed to decay and fall out of orbit in a few years - and so would most debris. Most communication satellites (currently) have much higher altitudes, where such an event would be much worse as the debris would stay in orbit for much longer.