So I just watched Virgin Orbit's promo for their plane-launched rocket-to-orbit service and something struck me SpaceX, Virgin, and many others are getting (or counting on) tons of revenue from commercial launch customers ... why are so many people putting objects in orbit?
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I actually need drastically fewer board games and poker chips and am looking forward to getting rid of a great majority of my collection As to the main point, though - surely diminishing marginal returns plays a factor here somewhere, handwave handwave
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absolutely ti does we will not diassemble the entire planet to make sattelites we will hit some sort of balance ...but I think that in terms of "what percent of FINAL mass in orbit is in orbit today?" the answer is 0.00000001%
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