[time-nuts] OT - but of interest?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Apr 28 02:51:59 EDT 2013


In message <CABbxVHuX9MyR81qx+0kxrtajzu0k5O0VmyVPsL0Dx_eJikSGpg at mail.gmail.com>
, Chris Albertson writes:

>The plan was to place maybe 100,000 devices in orbit [...]

That would effectively end human spaceflight, because you would generate
a massive layer of space-debris.

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