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https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-moves-thousands-starlink-satellites-orbit-near-miss-2026-1
So, between the slightly exploded Starlink and the near miss with a Chinese satellite that dove into the deep end without looking... They must actually be scared if they're lowering the orbits of 4400 satellites.
It's weird that I haven't seen this yet since I'm subbed on YT. It seems YT would rather shove AI slop in my face than show me things I'd actually like to watch.
Might not be a bad thing if we can't breach low earth orbit for a few decades. Spoil some billionaire bugout plans and give us a chance to get our shit together before the race to mine everything kicks off.
Another Torment Nexus to add to our collection. Neat!
If you wanted to launch a sattelite that would trigger Kessler Syndrome, how would you design it, what orbit would it take and where would you activate it?
Can you imagine a datacenter in space.... edong is a k hole crack head. He is such a dum dum
I got it.... space vacums... you are welcome. Saved the world.
edong and his low orbitz... its raining trash
It's not exactly the wrong place to post something about Kessler syndrome, but it's obnoxious to post a video link instead of explaining the idea and/or linking to a written source.
Looking up Kessler syndrome online, the "2 days away" thing seems to mean that satellites have maneuvering thrusters to avoid collisions with each other. If a big enough solar flare knocked out all the collision avoidance stuff in the satellites, then within 2 days (3 days is what the other source said) there could potentially be enough collisions to trigger the syndrome.
Anyway people launching stuff are now at least aware of the issue and taking some kinds of precautions, maybe not enough.
And may not be
Hello wonderful fedditor!
Try posting this in science, too.
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