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SF author, he/him. Next novella: ESCAPE FROM PUROLAND (July '21): Next novel: INVISIBLE SUN (Sept '21). Resident of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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    Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 14 Oct 2020

    Charlie Stross Retweeted Jason Major

    In event of a Kessler Syndrome, someone had better stage an urgent suicide intervention for Elon Musk.https://twitter.com/JPMajor/status/1316470431713497089 …

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    Jason Major @JPMajor
    There's an estimated 10% chance that two large pieces of orbiting space debris could collide tomorrow night at an altitude of 615 miles and a relative velocity of 32,883 mph. https://twitter.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/1316410780552699909 …
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      2. Chris King‏ @DocChrisKing 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @cstross

        Inability for us to get to space by the river be of 2020 means we’re DEFINITELY in a simulation, and the teenager running it is getting bored now.

        3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Charlie Stross‏Verified account @cstross 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @DocChrisKing

        Naah, it just means we found the answer to the Fermi paradox the hard way.

        3 replies 0 retweets 32 likes
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      1. Paul Drye‏ @paul_drye 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @cstross

        The man might....fall to pieces! I'll show myself out.

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      2. John Chivall‏ @JohnChivall 14 Oct 2020
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        John Chivall Retweeted Horváth Attila

        Oh this looks super funhttps://twitter.com/horv_att/status/1316440456629227524?s=19 …

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        Horváth Attila @horv_att
        Replying to @Sudz3 @LeoLabs_Space
        Can start. And if it does, can be messy. Not far from that orbital range is the Iridium constellation. And right in the collision range are the ejected nuclear reactors of the Soviet US-A ("RORSAT") satellites. So much for "graveyard orbit". I repeat: nuclear reactors.
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      3. Horváth Attila‏ @horv_att 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @JohnChivall @cstross

        We* have been treating space like we did with the oceans some decades ago. Just there was no Space Greenpeace to call attention. *: "we" in general. All the Hungarian satellites have deorbited safely within the allocated timeframe.

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      1. Alison | "Punished, As a Goth"‏ @theherogram 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @cstross

        He wouldn't react like that, unless his whole schtick has always been "create escape pod for dreadful billionaires (+ service wives) who want to abandon 99% of humanity to awful fate rather than invest in things that might save the planet". /looks to camera

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      2. Hyza‏ @Hyza87 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @cstross

        As in administering suicide?

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      3. bIm‏ @0youngbs 14 Oct 2020
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        Let's go with this reading.

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      1. Robert Petersen‏ @Sonikku_a2 14 Oct 2020
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        Are you kidding? Musk would slap together some kind of debris capture device and make a fortune sending rockets up for debris collecting

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      1. Wez‏ @nz_list 14 Oct 2020
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        Wrote a quick draft for a short story about the Kessler Syndrome about 3 years ago. Even had mention of Musk in it! http://novelist.nz/novel.php?w_novel_id=25 …

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