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minus-squarePurplexingg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoI just don’t get how it doesn’t get destroyed by random space shit. I get space is infinitely empty but it’s also infinitely full too, right…
minus-squareace_garp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoInfinitely empty AFAIK. Interstellar space is similar to atoms and the electron cloud, some tiny amount of matter and a whole heap of SFA. (Someone get at me with the actual numbers, but I’m leaning toward space being more sparse by percentage than an atom.) The main solar system objects were accounted for and closely avoided, now it’s a very roomy area to float through alone.
minus-squarePurplexingg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoBut aren’t there like a bunch of little rocks from like asteroids and stuff? That’s what I never got even for launches from earth, why isn’t everything up there just getting peppered nonstop from debris. I guess space is really just that empty
minus-squarehomicidalrobot@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoThere’s rocks, but only where there’s something. There’s a lot more nothing.
I just don’t get how it doesn’t get destroyed by random space shit. I get space is infinitely empty but it’s also infinitely full too, right…
Infinitely empty AFAIK.
Interstellar space is similar to atoms and the electron cloud, some tiny amount of matter and a whole heap of SFA.
(Someone get at me with the actual numbers, but I’m leaning toward space being more sparse by percentage than an atom.)
The main solar system objects were accounted for and closely avoided, now it’s a very roomy area to float through alone.
But aren’t there like a bunch of little rocks from like asteroids and stuff? That’s what I never got even for launches from earth, why isn’t everything up there just getting peppered nonstop from debris. I guess space is really just that empty
There’s rocks, but only where there’s something. There’s a lot more nothing.