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submitted 11 months ago by m3t00@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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big jobs programs incoming. best of luck to all involved. friggin ars'e, had to trim a short novel off that url

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[–] nul@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could we drag a big asteroid to each Lagrange point and let countries orbit their satellites around that?

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You already orbit Lagrange points, and there's already tons of space rocks milling about in them.

Lagrange points are weird.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Webb uses one. Mostly empty space though it's suffered a few micrometeoroid strikes already. https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html