I’m a child of Sputnik nights, when a single craft doing a few spins around the planet was front-page news. Talk about things taking off from then.
Inconceivably to me, there are now 12,000 manmade satellites circling Earth. It’s anticipated there will be 100,000 of them by 2035.
No, they’re not up there reproducing when nobody is watching. Assorted nations around the world are shooting them skyward like there’s no tomorrow, with the U.S.
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