[amsat-bb] ... Will Launch 20, 000 Satellites!!! [read SEVENEVES]

[John Geiger]

" Has anyone written a science fiction story about a planet so
  surrounded by satellites and other orbital trash that it could not be
reached from outer space?"

That would be great!  If the aliens can't get here I could finally retire
my tin foil hat!

73 John AF5CC

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:13 AM johnv at frontier.com <johnv at frontier.com>
wrote:

>  There are four resent books I have read that involving technology and
> satellites     Good and quick reads.
>
> Shadow Tyrants - Clive Cussler - satellites launched - The Oregon Files
> Matt Richtel - Dead On Arrival -  satellites launched
> Dan Brown - Origin - mostly technology and religionInfinity Beckoned - Jay
> Gallentine - non-fiction - Adventuring through the Inter Solar System 1969
> - 1989
> There was a TV show/movie that depicted moving a existing satellite into
> another and causing a chain reaction but the title slips my mind.    I was
> very resent.
>
>
> JohnN7AME
>
>     On Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 6:43:37 AM PST, Robert Bruninga <
> bruninga at usna.edu> wrote:
>
>  SEVENEVES:  A fantastic book.  Bill Gates' favorite SciFi because it is
> all grounded in true engineering more or less.  All based on expanding the
> space station to thousands of inhabitants to escape the natural calamity
> on Earth.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT On Behalf Of Don KB2YSI
>
> > Read some fiction: Neal Stephenson "Seveneves",
> > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816087-seveneves
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 18:12 Zach Metzinger <zmetzing at pobox.com wrote:
>
> > >> Has anyone written a science fiction story about a planet so
> > >> surrounded by satellites and other orbital trash
> > >> that it could not be reached from outer space?
> > >> K5HV
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