Skip to content

Comment on Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy

Comments

And, you know, this little thing called the Kessler effect. Which, I’m kinda rooting for because it’d crash capitalism overnight and give us a chance to build something new.

Kessler syndrome*. For those interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Kessler effect

New to me, interesting.

How do you figure that? Capitalism has been chugging along for hundreds of years before artificial satellites existed.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.