SpaceX ‘WasteX’ Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    Much more importantly, did you consider that we need to make billionaires more billions?

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    3 months ago

    China’s about to launch their own sattelite internet, unfortunately.

    they’ll probably launch more satellites than SpaceX.

    good luck regulating that.

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      3 months ago

      We could… just hear this out. We could stop buying everything from china and literally make every single person on this planet a part of their economy.

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        3 months ago

        countries actually took the first practical steps toward this, but Indian manufacturing capacity is relatively minimal and their poor standards and regulations keep introducing contaminants into the production line, including with medicine.

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        3 months ago

        Did not happen to the USA, don’t see why it would happen to China

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    3 months ago

    What will that look like in the sky? I saw a starlink cluster pass over me last year. It was stunning to see in person, but if it was like that all the time you’d never be able to see the stars.

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      3 months ago

      If you saw a cluster then you saw a new deployment. They become less visible as they raise to their final orbit and change orientation.

      The bigger problem is rumblings about how much aluminum dust their disintegration causes when they are deorbited and how much greenhouse effect that could cause. Probably not enough to make a difference but it’s. Something to consider and mitigate as much as possible.