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[Q&A] Rings Around the Earth, Iron Planets, Asteroid Mining Race

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The Dark Energy Force and the Expansion of the Universe

The risk is an increased ongoing expense for operating spacecraft within those orbital spheres. And so it will never turn into a coherent ring because the satellites are all in different orbits. But there will be some regions that are denser and are have more debris. So we may get to a point where if you want to have the safest exit from planet Earth, you take a flight trajectory that carries you say above the most dangerous parts of the Kessler cloudto get out into deep space. Just clean up after yourselves, everybody.

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