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They hinder the view on asteroids coming our way. The purpose of most of these satellites is internet access where we already have less limited possibilities w
by croes 4mo ago
They hinder the view on asteroids coming our way.
The purpose of most of these satellites is internet access where we already have less limited possibilities with less maintenance costs like constant replacement
- Legend2440 4mo agoNo they don't. It's more of an issue for long-exposure galaxies and nebula. And asteroids are an extremely rare threat in the first place. It's literally a once-in-a-million-years kind of event.
- croes 4mo agoDinosaur killers? Yes. City killers? That size hits more often > Asteroids with a diameter more than 30–50 metres (100–150ft) are large enough to make it through our atmosphere intact, however, and the chance of this happening is estimated to be around once in every 100 years. > The damage from an impact of this size would be wide-ranging, and could wipe out an entire city if they were to impact a heavily populated area. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/chances-asteroid-hitting-earth https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/chances-ast...
- Legend2440 4mo agoWe lack the technology to detect this size of asteroid with enough time to do anything about it. Luckily, the majority of the earth's surface is unpopulated. Most of these rocks hit the ocean or Siberia and cause few or no casualties. The odds of it hitting a major city are quite low.
- croes 4mo agoThat’s why luck is a big factor and amateur astronomers are a great help in spotting them by chance
- lefra 4mo agoThat "if it hits a populated area" reduces the probability by a factor 100 (because about 1% of the world's surface is urbanized [1]). So the actual frequency of "city wiped" is more like once every 10000 years. Completely negligible compared to other city-wiping events (earthquakes or floods for example). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_land_use_for_food_production,_OWID_statistic.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_land_use_for_food_...
- croes 4mo agoBut it’s an additional risk. The more risks the more likely one of them will hit you.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> They hinder the view on asteroids coming our way Source?
- croes 4mo ago> These proposals, combined with others considered in the study, would dramatically brighten the night sky, hindering humankind’s ability to observe faint cosmic targets, including far-away galaxies, some Earth-like planets around other stars, and even asteroids potentially dangerous to Earth. The article