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by lastofthemojito 1339 days ago
I mean, you need to actually be able to see the objects for it to be a visualization though. If the satellites were drawn to scale they'd be smaller than a pixel.

I think you can get a decent sense of how crowded (or not) an area is by watching how many objects pass though it. The state that I live in looks like it has somewhere between 1 and 10 satellites above it at any given time, which drives home the point that LEO isn't quite as "busy" as it feels from a zoomed-out, sped-up view of the map.