Reply to post: Re: Balance

What would you prefer: Satellite-streamed cat GIFs – or a decent early warning of an asteroid apocalypse?

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Re: Balance

How bad it gets will depend on how many satellites actually end up there and in what orbit. There is the potential for this to be seriously disruptive and increase the time and effort (and cost) of earth-based astronomy. Some of the numbers in play suggest any half decent frame will have one of these birds in it somewhere.

Of course, the trouble with predictions is by the time we can prove they are correct, it will be too late.

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