Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Thinking about orbital hardware

 You know, if your future planet has multiple space stations and such, some things to remember:

1. Those space stations are going to be visible. The ISS is not that big and it is naked eye visible if it passes over you and you know where to look. Spacedock? That's going to be VERY visible.

2. Your civilization had better have some kind of cleanup program for space trash, whether it's robots, human "space janitors," etc.

3. Most of your astronomy is going to be space based because of interference from orbital hardware.

4. In California, mysterious lights in the sky turned out to be trash dumped by the ISS, which was intended to burn up in the atmosphere. It did. People saw it. This would happen fairly frequently, probably accompanied by amusing speculation.

Think about all of these things.

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