Carbidereaper t1_j9e6i98 wrote on February 21, 2023 at 7:02 AM

Reply to comment by SmithMano in "Starlink is far crazier than most people realize. Feels almost inevitable when I look at this" by maxtility

That’s not how orbital dynamics works. If an object in orbit suffers a head on collision it will rob the object of its orbital momentum and all of the corresponding debris will fall into a lower orbit were it will burn up. To shift and object to a higher orbit you have to add energy to the object. collisions always tend to rob energy from moving objects

SmithMano t1_j9g9kyw wrote on February 21, 2023 at 6:31 PM

I mean I hope you’re right but I’m talking about tiny little fragments exploding everywhere, not the majority of the thing