NuttyFanboy
NuttyFanboy t1_j24s964 wrote
Reply to comment by Sh36fjk374fjc in SpaceX launches 54 upgraded Starlink internet satellites and nails rocket landing at sea in 60th flight of the year by ovirt001
Possibly. That's why there are regulations in place to either deorbit decommissioned satellites, or use the remaining fuel to move them into stable graveyard orbits. It's a real concern.
And then there's something called the Kessler syndrome.
NuttyFanboy t1_ja3fz85 wrote
Reply to comment by Pogue_Mahone_ in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Funnily enough in German it is "Drahtesel" which literally reads "Wire donkey".