• grue@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s also overly simplistic about the types of orbits, so it has no excuse for bad visualization.

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      5 months ago

      It also makes it look like we are covered with satellites. Imagine if there was 8100 cars spread all over the planet, and that’s it. Each car would be incredibly far apart. This distance is even greater on a bigger sphere above the surface of the earth.