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Through the Cracks Between Stars

 

Paglen ended his lecture with an amazing anecdote worth repeating here. Expanding on this notion—that humanity's longest-lasting ruins will not be cities, cathedrals, or even mines, but rather geostationary satellites orbiting the Earth, surviving for literally billions of years beyond anything we might build on the planet's surface

 

Neat image of the geostationary dots in a long exposure that shows the background stars' apparent motion.
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