How much stuff can be dumped into orbit without crashing into everything else?
Fly tipping in space
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:54,
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do a link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 0:24,
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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
--DNA
The Moon is in orbit, for example. It is quite a long way away. You could dump a trillion bags of waste into that area, and not even notice them. In fact, it'd still be quite hard to even detect one.
The volume of a sphere 380,000 km wide is about 21x10^25 cubic meters.
You could throw all the junk of Earth in there, and still not notice it. Even your Mum isn't that big.
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can you imagine being hit by a peanut in orbit?
at the probability of two to the power of 276,709 to one against?
not even star crossed, just unlucky
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:31,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtx4ZJ1cwI0
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 0:57,
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not even star crossed, just unlucky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60Y323q__0
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:04,
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it depends, have you sorted you spacedegradables from your non-spacedegradables?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:54,
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