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It's a very real possibility, it's just a very slow exponential. If you have 100,000 satellites, and each collision produces 50,000 pieces of shrapnel with som
by chris_va 8mo ago
It's a very real possibility, it's just a very slow exponential.
If you have 100,000 satellites, and each collision produces 50,000 pieces of shrapnel with some distribution of altitudes and atmospheric drag, it's not that hard to do the math. The cinematic portrayal of cascading failure (ala the movie Gravity) is completely insane, but that doesn't mean this isn't a real problem on a 100 year timescale.
- JumpCrisscross 8mo ago> If you have 100,000 satellites, and each collision produces 50,000 pieces of shrapnel with some distribution of altitudes and atmospheric drag, it's not that hard to do the math One, it is. And two, you need insane distributions to get over the energy requirements of plane changes. > on a 100 year timescale Irrelevant in LEO.