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Arentanji t1_j0u0ief wrote

Reply to comment by sivacat in The Risk of Orbital Debris and One (Cheap) Way to Mitigate It by location_tbd

Thanks for the link to this - amazing how crowded space is.

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Adeldor t1_j0ucns0 wrote

Beware such depictions. Orbital space is nowhere near that densely crowded. The scale of the dots is massively exaggerated - necessary simply to see them on such representations. Were they to scale, they'd be far too tiny to be visible.

In this example, were the dots as depicted to scale, they'd be larger than cities.

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