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Sure, but space is big, and satellites are small. I bet all the Starlink satellites in orbit fit comfortably inside the area of an American football field. Sat
by pelorat 5y ago
Sure, but space is big, and satellites are small. I bet all the Starlink satellites in orbit fit comfortably inside the area of an American football field.
Satellite visualizations always make space appear more crowded than it really is.
- Retric 5y agoThat’s a misleading was of thinking about it. A sofa doesn’t need much space, a sofa traveling 17,000 mph for decades needs a lot of space. Worse a sofa hit with another sofa at 5,000+ mph creates a cloud of debris that then endangers stuff across quite a lot of space.