If there are many satellites orbiting earth, how do space launches not bump into any of them?
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Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy: “Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space”
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We consider the edge of space to be 100km high from sea level. Adding to that the radius of earth is 6371 Km.
We have a sphere that has a radius of 6471 km. The surface area of that is 5.26202 times 10^8 square kilometers
526,202,000 square kilometers, more than the earth surface.
If we would move every human onto that surface. Every square kilometer would have about 15 people. If I calculate it correctly, distributed evenly means that there would be about 250m (820 feet) between every single human (calculated from 8 billion)
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There are only a some thousands of satellites out there. If they were distributed uniformly, there would be 100s if not 1000s of kilometers between them
Not to meantion that they are not on the same surface sphere, some are farther, some are closer in 3d space
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