• muelltonne
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      7 days ago

      That’s totally on Musk. He started messing around with Ukraines use of starlink during a critical phase of the war and that is nothing another state can tolerate. You want to be in control of your military communication and not be dependent on some right wing lunatic

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      8 days ago

      These satellites are generally too low for Kessler. If they become non functional or crash, they’ll burn in the atmosphere.

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            No one knows really because no one’s watching how many satellites burn up, but we do know the gasses created by them are more powerful GHG’s than methane, not to mention CO2.

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              i mean… we do definite track how many satellites burn up

              and really it’s a drop in the bucket. we release over 35b tonnes of CO2 alone… at ~$2000/kg to LEO, that’s… well let’s just say we aren’t getting even 1 millionth of that into orbit per year all up - the effect would have to be so huge that it’s not going to go unnoticed even from a “finger in the air” scenario

              that’s not to say it’s not good, but it’s not a compelling argument