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What about artificial satellites? If their orbits were stable, shouldn't any satellites from previous civilization still be around? Do you have an estimate on t
by wging 13y ago
What about artificial satellites? If their orbits were stable, shouldn't any satellites from previous civilization still be around? Do you have an estimate on the attrition rate from random meteor collisions and the like? We should be able to do pretty well just from our own experience.
- johnchristopher 13y agoIt's as likely that a different civilization would go all-wired/wired-only for mass communication and only use satellites for observation purposes and GPS purposes. Then the number of potential satellites to be found is much lower than our current civilization.
- bicknergseng 13y agoUnless previous civilizations deliberately left no trace a la Star Trek Prime Directive. Or we're unable to perceive their interactions because of some perceptual blindness. Fun to think about.