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Originally Posted by dewolf View Post
The moon is also a perfect place to launch small missiles at satellites. If your company owns a satellite or two and they don't like what you're saying, retract, or your satellites are gone. You could take out world comms in no short order.
I kinda what you to explain this.

Why is it better to be 239,800 miles from a satellite, moving at different orbital speeds, instead of being 200 miles from a satellite moving at the same common orbital speed?

I think that you cartoon view of the Earth/Moon/Satellite distribution is wrong...
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