# Is Starlink a danger to humanity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 6, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-starlink-a-danger-to-humanity/937356 "2021-03-06T21:03:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 105
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Previous thread, similar topic: > [@How much of a real threat is the Kessler syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-real-threat-is-the-kessler-syndrome/805372/14): > > Well, except it is going to be everyone’s problem if nations and corporations involved in space industries don’t address it. Big telecomm and weather satellites in GTO and GSO are high enough that it is unlikely that they will be threatened by random debris fields, but anything in MEO or lower could potentially be affected by debris from an impact event at that altitude or higher, including GPS and GLONASS satellites, lower or eccentric orbit surveillance and communications satellites, and of … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-starlink-a-danger-to-humanity/937356)._