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uhoh
uhoh
1:54 AM
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Q: What regulations, agreements, or other forces can help mitigate "PrankSats"?

uhohcomment: I've used a somewhat innocuous abstraction of 'pranks in space' below, but there's no end to the trouble that could be caused and the increasing ease with which a state (nation or otherwise) could cause it. The scope of Article IX of The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 is pretty narrow - what...

launch cubesat regulatory
I was thinking about asking for this question to be temporarily re-opened so I could add an answer citing the "Laser Pointer, Hubble-Seeking" admonition in the XKCD above (XKCD 1992)
It wasn't closed until 1.5 years after original posting.
I've left a comment.
 
 
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uhoh
uhoh
12:05 PM
Congratulations to @PearsonArtPhoto for reaching a score of 71,293!
This is the 17th prime number starting at 70,000
and 17 is prime too!
 
PearsonArtPhoto
PearsonArtPhoto
Huh.
That's too much math even for me, and I minored in Math in college;-)
 

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