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Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth: Creon Levit

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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The Starling Constellation in Three Dimensional Geometry

In a sense, every satellite is just sitting in a box. But the issue is that if you look at it in three dimensional geometry, you can see that there's wayste o kind of thread stuff through each other. And so we could have boxes like that, a globaly, you know, entire world' satellites,. And we can have lots of satellites up there if everybody stays in their box. So what d'll we do about these debris objects? So we can do active debris removal?

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