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Touch-Not-This-Cat [2020-08-04 19:17:34 +0000 UTC]
You forgot the “Kessler’s Syndrome” tag.
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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to dopename [2020-08-05 21:09:57 +0000 UTC]
Huh. Now that I look around, most people with the same theme have forgotten it. Given how popular “Planetes” was back in the day, and the movie “Gravity”, you’d think a nerd or two would have remembered it. It’s a cool, if horrifying, concept. And I don’t mean horrible for the danger to astronauts. It could end our civilization, that or make anyone invested in Fiber Optic Cable stocks a multi billionaire overnight.
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Touch-Not-This-Cat In reply to dopename [2020-08-06 06:23:04 +0000 UTC]
See, worse case scenario is multiple, overlapping debris field clouds at multiple altitudes. A full scale war in space lasting just few weeks would guarantee a full scale distribution over almost the entire circumference of the earth. We’re talking every satellite at least halfway out to the Lagrange point (quarter of the way to the moon) being eventually destroyed, and the orbital pathways will become permanently impassable for ANY rocket for thousands of years. Vivid Shooting stars will become as common as clouds, day and night, for all that time.
Sooo, assuming we don’t fall into extinction or an indefinite New Stone Age from the immediate chaos, the only way to get communications back up to par will be fiber optics, MILLIONS of miles of fiber optics to compensate for the loss of orbital relays. They will be everywhere, wrapping the world like a spider web, including strung across the bottom of the sea.
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WitchSammy [2020-07-25 12:04:31 +0000 UTC]
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Albinoterror143 [2020-07-25 00:56:06 +0000 UTC]
Its dangerous how somthing so small could kill you I read that small meters can still kill you just like a bullet
Also very nice sketch!
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NoNameIllusion [2020-07-25 00:07:46 +0000 UTC]
The ‘always has been’ guy finally got him
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