The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites and space debris

Re:The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites an... by thih9 on Thursday August 19, 2021 @04:42PM (#28239125)

> Where's your threshold?

I meant world scale extinction event like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinct... . A layer of sediment literally everywhere, etc.

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Re:The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites an... by nautilius on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:44PM (#28241483)

Well then I guess in your view no human has ever experienced a catastrophe. One may think many people will disagree (me for example).

How do you call, say, a disease that kills half of all humans? An inconvenience?

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Re:The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites an... by thih9 on Friday August 20, 2021 @05:02AM (#28244117)

I think you misunderstood? See earlier discussion. Specifically:

> Of course, it could be "catastrophic" too, but there is catastrophe, and then there is catastrophe...

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Re:The world must cooperate to avoid colliding satellites an... by nautilius on Friday August 20, 2021 @08:47AM (#28245370)

I did not. I specifically asked you for your threshold between catastrophe and catastrophe.

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