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Privatize the profit (and government helps pay for development) then socialize the cleanup costs.

Why doesn't every messy industry like this have to pre-pay massive insurance fees ahead of time for known and unknown damages?

Note X isn't the only one with thousands of satellites, there are several startups that are launching their own thousands. Soon we'll have debris and burnup of dozens a day, that will add up.

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It's kind of like the industrial revolution. I don't think anyone knows what will happen (it's the classic human behavior of kicking the problem down the road), but the collective human mind has decided we want global connectivity now that it's cheap.

I can't see the cat going back into the bag (or reengineered) unless there have been proven negative results like the ozone hole directly linked to CFCs.

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