day 7: "orbital rules of the road"

What I actually wouldn’t give
for a 33,000-mph accident with another lonely satellite--
“That’s a bullet,” he said.

How cosmic is it--
our meeting wouldn’t be enough to hurt a planet,
but just enough to disrupt life on it.

Baby, whoever you are, Guster had it wrong:
You’re not out of reach, we’ve just narrowly been missing each other in orbit this whole time, and frankly,
if we’re due for a collision...
What could be more rock-n-roll than a crash like that?

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Inspired by this news story: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ag3qq/a-hypersonic-shockwave-what-would-happen-if-these-two-satellites-collide