@sundogplanets @ai6yr

I was puzzled by the tears. Published, peer review paper, whoot! And then I saw it was a reply to Ben's and then I looked at Ben's, and I still like Mastodon, existential warnings notwithstanding 🥴😎

@sundogplanets Oh wow, three day solar storm, we win Kessler bingo?!?!

"Here we propose a new metric, the CRASH Clock, that measures such stress in terms of the time it takes for a catastrophic collision to occur if there are no collision avoidance manoeuvres or there is a severe loss in situational awareness.

Our calculations show the CRASH Clock is currently 2.8 days, which suggests there is now little time to recover from a wide-spread disruptive event, such as a solar storm. This is in stark contrast to the pre-megaconstellation era: in 2018, the CRASH Clock was 121 days."