It’s not only unlikely it functionally impossible. It would require the complete collapse of every system in existence in order to be even marginally probable.
You’re wanting a system to re-enter under extreme heat, survive, and necessarily hit a populated area with enough mass to do destructive damage.
Likelihood of that happening accidentally are so low is do not be worth calculating. But yeah I’m sure you have some sort of point.
A collision event is considered any event where a satellite passes within a ridiculously large distance of another satellite. It doesn’t mean they’re necessarily going to collide.
In the incredibly unlikely event that all of the things that you have stated happen everything would clear out within 12 to 18 months which given the fact you’ve just decimated 21st century civilisation is probably the least of everyone’s concerns anyway.
If someone decides heat resistant ceramic is cheaper all is well until that cames down and we discover it doesn’t vaporize like iron
Yeah because that’s likely. You do realise that everything that goes up has to pass inspections right they don’t just let people do random things. Anything that gets put in orbit is verified by people way smarter than you or me. You really don’t need to worry about it.
There’s lots of stuff in this world to be concerned about but being hit by the orbiting asteroid is absolutely not one of them.
Why what are they gonna do profile it?
Why bother they just target random people anyway. I have never seen any indication that their behaviour is in any way directed.
They’re about the size of a large flat screen TV. I have no idea why they reached the pickup trucks, they might have the width but they’re only a couple of inches thick. A flat screen is a much better analogy.
I don’t remember that happening. I would actually be surprised if a satellite would survive reentry with basically anything left of it. If you want to return something from orbit you need heat shield or you’re not getting it back.
Even the ISS is expected to completely burn up and that’s much higher mass than a starlink satellite
Well if the atmosphere decides it’s going to have a day off then I’ll start to worry.
The temperatures generated by reentry are not just hot enough to vaporize a satellite they are way beyond hot enough to vaporize a satellite. I can’t imagine any scenario where a satellite survives. In any case the vast majority of the orbits are controlled, Which means they come down over the ocean.
Every time somebody mentions Kessler syndrome they always seem to forget that low earth orbit is an area literally bigger than the earth’s surface. There’s about 10,000 of them and they are spread out over an area bigger than the surface of the earth. Meanwhile there are way more than 10,000 trucks in the world and apparently they are twice the size, and yet there are huge swaths of land that do not currently have a truck on them. I think we’ll be okay.
Although I do accept they are probably irritating for astronomers.
Essentially the same but with a radiator grill that isn’t large enough to intake an entire basin all in one go.
Large boulder is a state of mind. It achieved an awful lot that day and was feeling especially pleased with itself thus the honorific.
Well given the fact that the US navy don’t appear to be able to secure a narrow stretch of water maybe we’d have a chance.
Although given the fact that the prize would be the United States perhaps it’s not worth it.
The founding fathers weren’t visionaries, they were just people who lived in a particular time period and wrote laws appropriate to that time period. I don’t think they would necessarily be all that upset if someone was to travel back in time and tell them that people 200 years later wanted to change the rules because they no longer worked. So whatever they motivations may have been at the time are irrelevant.
Yes that was the second time it was raised the first time they just dismissed it with some generic response saying to refer to the current protection laws.
It’s not even a particularly good game. It’s more just the principle of the thing.
Oh there’s always someone isn’t that there’s always someone in the comments section that says something like this.
Sort of but it’s also because these things take forever. If you want to put something forward to the European parliament you best submit the petition while you’re still in the womb.
I still think the petition was a bit hamstrung by being sort of vaguely defined. I think it initially got rejected because it did sort of sound like it was trying to force developers to continue support for servers indefinitely. Now that the clarification has been made that they were simply need to open source project I think the politicians more open to the idea.
Oh it’s her. This isn’t a new story this has been around for ages.
I love the one of her in the military uniform, her name plate literally says US ARMY, how dumb are these guys?
The studios don’t care about any of that.
He should be awarded the Nobel prize for advancing environmental causes.