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0 pointsspiritplumber5mo ago0 comments

Yep. That's the things about exponential curves, it's a graph slowly going up until it's no longer "slowly".

https://www.thefrogdoctrine.com/p/the-29th-day

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This can't go up forever. There is only so much mass up there in orbit, and much of it is in low earth orbit so will fall back into the atmosphere quickly as it's trajectory gets knocked off course.

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