What I love about GPS is that it's so pervasive that maps have basically vanished overnight. And in 1000 years there will be no physical evidence of it.
The only thing future archaeologists would be able to tell is that one day, we stopped making maps, and suddenly we started listening to the stars.
That's even cooler, would be pretty spooky if modern historical records and knowledge got lost and then all that was left was a gap in written information and several hundred large man made objects that can be seen with basic optics or even the human eye under the right conditions.
It is wild that the longest living manmade structures have already been built. Satellites and space debris in stable orbits will be around for millions of years, way longer than anything could ever survive on earth
Yeah, but a change that drastic (like a minor planet collision) would basically remove the possibility of life on earth in any sense.
I'm speaking in like evolutionary epochs. Our satellites in deep orbit, like JWST, will remain in those orbits for hundreds of thousands to millions of years with little to no degradation (minus collisions with small debris).
So assuming that someone is the in millions of years and happens to look in those orbits, they'll find stuff we made millions of years before.
Before being able to park stuff in space, everything we made had to survive corrosive atmosphere, tectonic shifts, and corrosive rains. In space it can just kinda chill without ever having to deal with that.
What I love about GPS is that it's so pervasive that maps have basically vanished overnight. And in 1000 years there will be no physical evidence of it.
The only thing future archaeologists would be able to tell is that one day, we stopped making maps, and suddenly we started listening to the stars.
We got another candidate for the "beautiful sentence you'd think comes from a fancy book, but it's actually just an internet comment" collection
Gps satellites are in geostationary orbit so they won't deorbit for thousands of years.
Don't worry Boeing and Elon will take care of that
You're right, they'll just become deities because their motion is regular and visible.
Then when they do de-orbit, a great schism will occur and the resulting wars will end in the re-industrialization of society and they'll be replaced
Anyone reading this should pick up a road atlas and stick it in your car
You will probably never need it... Probably.
We wait for them to align just right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39OqlJsm4
Two more months
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Those gps sats are never coming down they'll still be there in 10k years
That's even cooler, would be pretty spooky if modern historical records and knowledge got lost and then all that was left was a gap in written information and several hundred large man made objects that can be seen with basic optics or even the human eye under the right conditions.
They'd have to invent astro-archarology.
It is wild that the longest living manmade structures have already been built. Satellites and space debris in stable orbits will be around for millions of years, way longer than anything could ever survive on earth
is that true though? couldn't something cause the earth's rotation to change and thus screw up orbits?
Yeah, but a change that drastic (like a minor planet collision) would basically remove the possibility of life on earth in any sense.
I'm speaking in like evolutionary epochs. Our satellites in deep orbit, like JWST, will remain in those orbits for hundreds of thousands to millions of years with little to no degradation (minus collisions with small debris).
So assuming that someone is the in millions of years and happens to look in those orbits, they'll find stuff we made millions of years before.
Before being able to park stuff in space, everything we made had to survive corrosive atmosphere, tectonic shifts, and corrosive rains. In space it can just kinda chill without ever having to deal with that.
The oldest known human footprints are 117,000 years old. The footprints on the moon from the Apollo missions should easily outlast that.