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What happened if you didn't pay?
by someonebaggy 4mo ago
What happened if you didn't pay?
- athrowaway3z 4mo agoPay what? Its a 'pure' system where nothing has to be denominated in money but instead we care about effects: taking-up-orbits, applying-force, and danger-pollution. The system requires the biggest player calculates the cost of non-compliance being too high either by: - the scheme triggering a clause where other members start to apply force to their non-sanctioned orbits and trashing their satellites, add in the additional threat of earthly economic sanctions like we do with so many companies. - the scheme breaking apart and becoming a wild west with _extreme_ danger-pollution. Clearly, at the moment, the biggest users do not care because the danger is low enough, and they'll try to delay a bit so they get more 'grandfathered' in. I'm not saying its going to be perfect or fair. I'm arguing its dumb to fear a mythical global government, because that's not required to create stable solutions for these kinds of issues.
- someonebaggy 4mo agoSo basically in order to prevent Kessler syndrome, everyone follows the regulations or the other participants punish them by destroying their satellites, causing Kessler syndrome?