Stepping out of my weeklong blogfunk, here's a worry about deorbiting junk. In our world, most air-traffic runs where we live: around 25-45° N. This overlaps the equatorial orbits of most satellites especially low-orbit comsats serving... 25-45° N.
One can imagine an alternate, hotter and/or equatorial-oceanic Earthlike with few equatorial settlements, such that its own air traffic runs more 45-65° N or S. Their sats might not interfere as much with their air. But that is not our world.
In a world where our air traffic control is already suffering from legacy tech and ideology, this is yet another wakeup-call to fix the tech and reward merit.
BACKDATE 2/15
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