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▲ red75prime 21 hours ago

Polluting LEO with debris is not the way to solve the problem of goods distribution. But, sure, there will be morons who consider it.

▲airhangerf15 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People who could do it successfully would hardy be considered morons. That would be a genius engineer.

The general attitude in this thread against reasonable people not wanting unsustainable megaliths that produce horrible amounts of noise, and are driving up electricity prices, in their communities without any input from said community is astonishing.

HN has really gone full AI derangement syndrome (it runs both directions).

▲red75prime 14 hours ago | parent [-]

The majority will not do it successfully. Rocket science is notoriously hard. Hopefully, there will be no incentives to go to such lengths.

Sending unguided rockets in the general direction of the enemy with 25% failure rate doesn't scale well to a 3-stage precision guided delivery vehicle.

▲impossiblefork 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That sounds way too categorical.

It's not like people actually need satellites. We already have ground-based communication in the form of mobile phone networks etc., so I don't think the harm of making LEO unusable would be very great.

▲NetMageSCW 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I suggest talking to people in Ukraine or Africa or even rural US or Europe before you so blithely take away their access to healthcare, education and communication.

▲red75prime 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't see why I shouldn't call people who choose wrong dangerous tools for the task morons.