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We once said the ocean is huge too.
by toxik 5y ago
We once said the ocean is huge too.
- verdverm 5y agospace >>>> air >> ocean > land It is worth considering the ocean is ~2d while air and space are 3d.
- pdq 5y agoThe ocean is most certainly 3D. The surface is 2D.
- verdverm 5y ago~2d was intended to imply effectively 2d for human activities, even airspace is probably closer to a layered 2d cake than true 3d like deeper space. LEO may be closer to an extension of airspace due to orbits and gravity. Still, due to the exponential growth with respect to the radius, there is significant room in LEO compared to anything terrestrial.
- dylan604 5y agoHow does this differeniate space and the ocean in your mind? Humans cannot survive in either without some sort of vessel to provide a suitable environment.
- verdverm 5y agoMy GGGP point was about "clogging" space with satellites, not about habitation. Space is so large that 100K's of satellites is still not clogged. I believe the SpaceX and AWS constellations are planned to get us pretty close to 100k iirc
- aidenn0 5y agoQuadratic growth, not exponential growth.
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- verdverm 5y agoI think it's cubic because they sum, polynomial either way, without considering other factors like potential for increased density the further out
- aidenn0 5y agoRight; I meant the number of satellites supportable at any given altitude, not the number of satellites supportable up to a given altitude.
- colordrops 5y agoAnd there's nothing in space that supports life or the ecosystem.
- verdverm 5y agoDepends, could our increased use of satellite based sensing be used to support and improve the terrestrial situation? Is the tradeoff worth it? It is certain that your life today would not be the same without GPS, so in a sense it does support it.
- colordrops 5y agoI mean there's nothing in space that we will damage (unlike the ocean) by using it. I'm all for utilizing space.
- Denvercoder9 5y agoIs there anyone claiming the ocean is full?
- colordrops 5y agoWhat do you mean?