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4 days agoThere’s another problem that nobody mentions. Putting thousands of additional satellites into space would seriously increase the risk of Kessler Syndrome occurring.


There’s another problem that nobody mentions. Putting thousands of additional satellites into space would seriously increase the risk of Kessler Syndrome occurring.


Better to use winget, though. That way you don’t even need to bother with Edge’s initial setup screens.


I say let’s have some broadcasting about American history worth celebrating:


Zuco 103 - Zabumba no Mar - Portuguese
Leningrad - Fish - Russian
Mohammed Rafi - Jaan Pehchan Ho - Hindi(?) (That song from the movie “Ghost World”)
Dead satellites do add a much larger risk than satellites that can be steered, sure. If we stopped steering all our satellites right now, I believe it’d only take a few days before a collision occurred.
However, every satellite in orbit adds to the risk, especially if a chain reaction starts happening and it becomes very hard to avoid the shrapnel flying around. Or if a once-in-a-century-type solar flare takes out a bunch of satellites.
Edit: Basically, the best way to prevent Kessler Syndrome from occurring, is to keep the number of satellites in orbit below the threshold where it could occur.