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Noaidilast Thursday at 7:56 PM3 repliesview on HN

Destroy the satellites? I mean all that have to do is screw up the trajectory of some of the satellites to cause exponential collisions...


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bhhaskinlast Thursday at 8:06 PM

Iran does not have that capability. But that would also be an act of war.

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Noaidilast Thursday at 10:34 PM

Ahahaahhaaa…. People are downvoting this! Ahahaaaahha!

Scared cause it’s true? Ahhahaa no idea!

some_birdlast Thursday at 9:10 PM

Ah yes, Kessler's space shredder, something to be feared by all satellites!

It appears that we are very close to an unstoppable runaway process of collisions in space. On one hand, nice that we prevent rich guys from running away to other planets after ruining this one. On the other hand, a lot of services require GPS, it would be chaos if that were to disappear...

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