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by Lolaccount 1065 days ago
Humans are like satellites in orbit ... inert.

It'll only take something like a starlink satellite punching a hole through the ISS for this to register or change anything ...

c.f. light pollution

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That would be difficult since Starlink orbits more than 100km higher than the ISS.
There have been near collisions with Starlink satellites and China’s space station:

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4338/1

No, that actually makes it possible. If they were lower then it would be difficult (or even impossible). But the chances of a collision are really small given how tiny the relative cross sections of satellite and ISS are compared to the total surface area of the shell the ISS orbits in.