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by JumpCrisscross 142 days ago
> If you have 100,000 satellites, and each collision produces 50,000 pieces of shrapnel with some distribution of altitudes and atmospheric drag, it's not that hard to do the math

One, it is. And two, you need insane distributions to get over the energy requirements of plane changes.

> on a 100 year timescale

Irrelevant in LEO.