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It's low orbit ~400km, the lifetime of these things is measured in weeks or months.
by bagels 6y ago
It's low orbit ~400km, the lifetime of these things is measured in weeks or months.
- jerf 6y agoAnd the Earth picks up about 40,000 tons of space dust per year. We've got a lot of work to do before our space "littering" can even dream of matching that level... and that's just a coincidental level that nature happens to have, not some sort of threshold for "real harm", which I'd guess to be multiple orders of magnitude higher.
- dylan604 6y agoSo do McDonalds wrappers is my point.