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"a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System. Now, the orbiting satellites themselves only appear as streaks because of the long camera exposure, over 10 minutes in this case. On the contrary, to the eye, satellites appear as points that drift slowly across the night sky and shine by reflecting sunlight -- primarily just after sunset and before sunrise. The featured image was taken just before sunrise two weeks ago from Bavaria, Germany."
I guess the only ways to access the natural sky is to leave the atmosphere or to use AI to remove the trails.
It's only a matter of time before one hits another and the debris from that hits a 3rd one, and so on until there's nothing left but debris, preventing the launch of any more. Maybe then we'll get some peace around here.
Thankfully they're low enough orbit that their orbit would decay pretty quickly. It'd be a superb show as the sky lit up with millions of pieces of burning debris. Not sure what it would do for the atmosphere though. It would be a fair amount of metals being vaporised.
Pretty sure it would do absolutely nothing to the atmosphere
It would be like dumping a gram of metal shavings in the ocean.
That would actually be a dope terrorist movie plot. Just launching a satellite with the sole purpose of destroying as many satellites as possible.
The USA, China, Russia and India have all already tested such things, to no one's surprise.
Yeah the major powers have anti satellite weapons. Shits fucked
EMP boom!
Space is pretty big and accidental collisions like that are quite unlikely actually. But of course space debris is a real problem, just not quite in the way you describe I think.