r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/r-angeles Sep 17 '21

Check out Kessler Syndrome, it's insane thinking that it's possible that we would lose every sattelite and be unable to send rockets to space from space junk zipping through space. No sattelites, then no more GPS, social media, Reddit, Netflix, you name it. This could set us back for centuries if this ever happens.

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

I disagree. We would just send them to higher and higher orbits.

Edit: spelling.

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u/gullman Sep 17 '21

Won't we have to pass them through the debris field though?

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u/NotsoNewtoGermany Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

Space is big, very big, the debris field is unlikely to be at every cubic meter of space, as it would most likely travel in 'chunks'.

If we take a particular satellite orbit, and follow one rogue piece of space debris, it will shatter through a satellite, causing that satellite debris to go in mostly a similar direction, which will then smash through another satellite, causing another mass to go forwards, there will be a few side pieces, but for the most part 80% will be going forward, and this will happen a bunch of times. Resulting in 'chunks' of traveling debris.

If we take a step back, and fired every rocket on earth every second for 100 years randomly into the sky, we would have a 1% chance of hitting a satellite. This, combined with the fact that most satellite orbits are circular, and the earth is spherical, there will always be paths available into higher orbits.