• fubarx@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    There are now one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day, burning up in the atmosphere with consequences not fully understood.

    Wait, what?!

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      12 days ago

      I mean it doesn’t take an expert to understand that putting cloud of metal and rare earthes into the upper atmosphere is probably not the best of things to do

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        11 days ago

        Who knows, it may reflect some solar radiation and help with global warming.

        Please let my one remaining positive brain cell have this win.

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      12 days ago

      It’s my new panic spiral pet theory for the end of days. There’s a possibility that this could fuck up our magnetosphere, leading to losing our ozone layer, which would then eventually lose us our atmosphere.

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        11 days ago

        They were also afraid detonating a nuklear bomb could set the atmosphere on fire.

        I think realistically we’re looking at the hole in the ozone layer grow again and MAYBE even a bit of Kessler Syndrome if every idiot with too much money makes their own sattelite WiFi

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          Oh, I know that I don’t know enough about this subject to have any idea of its likelihood, but it’s stuck in my brain regardless