Lugh@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 23 hours agoChina applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash riskarchive.phexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10
arrow-up145arrow-down1external-linkChina applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash riskarchive.phLugh@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squarepotoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·23 hours agoYay for even more trash in the fucking sky.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agothat’s actually why starlink uses very low orbits … in case they fail, they de-orbit automatically within 5 years due to atmospheric friction, so the orbit is “self-cleaning”
minus-squareProve_your_argument@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·22 hours agoI mean what are we gonna do? stand up to billion person nations and billionaire owned corpos? lol
Yay for even more trash in the fucking sky.
that’s actually why starlink uses very low orbits … in case they fail, they de-orbit automatically within 5 years due to atmospheric friction, so the orbit is “self-cleaning”
I mean what are we gonna do? stand up to billion person nations and billionaire owned corpos? lol