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I'm not considering such concerns at all; my comment holds even considering perfect orbits followed by frictionless point objects of zero mass. You can of course pack into the height-dimension trivially when using circular orbits; the issue then is how many orbits you can pack into an orbital plane. I contend it scales with radius, not radius squared.


Also, it is kind of like an extreme version of the risks of flying cars. One hubcap/collision can mean catastrophic downstream effects.




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