LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 6 months agoChina applies to put 200,000 satellites in space after calling Starlink a crash riskarchive.phexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
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minus-squarepotoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·6 months agoYay for even more trash in the fucking sky.
minus-squareProve_your_argument@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·6 months agoI mean what are we gonna do? stand up to billion person nations and billionaire owned corpos? lol
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months 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”
Yay for even more trash in the fucking sky.
I mean what are we gonna do? stand up to billion person nations and billionaire owned corpos? lol
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”