Re:Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to...
by jerf on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:38PM
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And the Earth picks up about 40,000 tons of space dust per year.
We've got a lot of work to do before our space "littering" can even dream of matching that level... and that's just a coincidental level that nature happens to have, not some sort of threshold for "real harm", which I'd guess to be multiple orders of magnitude higher.
We've got a lot of work to do before our space "littering" can even dream of matching that level... and that's just a coincidental level that nature happens to have, not some sort of threshold for "real harm", which I'd guess to be multiple orders of magnitude higher.