[AR] Re: Freeman Dyson, RIP

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 13:36:07 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 3 Mar 2020, William Claybaugh wrote:

      The "sphere" is not a solid shell but a collection of objects
      orbiting at the same approximate distance but different
      inclinations. That is commonly misunderstood. 

I've always wondered why this scheme does not result in a runaway chain
reaction leading to a massive debris field.

The orbits are coordinated and controlled, not left to drift at random. People who are active enough in space to build such a thing should long since have gotten past the stupid-mistakes stage that we're still struggling to emerge from.

Henry

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