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“…But I’d like to hear more about why they assess the risk to be zero.”
Because it’s the company responsible that’s assessing the risk, you sweet summer child.
The more satellites are up there, the higher the chance one is obliterated by space junk or meteorites. The more obliterated satellites, the more space junk.
It's going to be a massacre.
If a cascading series of obliterations happens I could see us being trapped on Earth until some sort of technology is developed to navigate the debris field. Such idiocy allowing things like Starlink to begin with.
They're in such a low orbit that they're barely staying in space already. You could explode all Starlink satellites right now and all their debris would naturally fall back into the atmosphere and leave the orbit clean in just a few years at most.
Trapped on earth? Just where do you think we are going to go? Contrary to what you have been told, we are no where near colonizing mars. Or cloud cities on venus, which is more practicable it appears to me. Society will fall apart long before we get there, glances at clock...
I don't know if this is what the guy you're replying to meant, but I would also say that not being able to launch new satalites for things like GPS, internet, communications systems, telescopes, space missions, etc. would also qualify as trapping us on earth.
They're our eyes and ears in space, and we use them to work around needing to navigate the terrain on earth to communicate. It's always easier to bounce a signal off satellites than traverse ground terrain.
Good. Let the motherfuckers burn. There is no benefit to working people to these satellites. I hope a cascade of space junk takes out every single one of these low orbit bullshit nazi internet satellites.
Problem is that this space junk hits normal satellites, too.
Okay but what are these normal satellites doing for us? Spying on foreigners so we can kill them for Israel? Or what? Navigation on our stupid fucking cars we shouldn't even be driving? Fuck them all burn them all down.
You don't like weather forecasts? Or analyzing ground quality and fertility? Not all satellites are evil.
That can be done from the ground, and they are cancelling all of that shit as we speak, in the US, and your shit western sycophant governments will be following suit.
Analyzing ground and fertility is a new one to me. But on the ground it's easy to do that, easier. Why would we need to do that from space? That on second thought is the ~~dumbest~~ a dumb thing I've heard today that is no where near the dumbest thing I've heard, because, you know.
Those are in very low earth orbit, basically they can only take out themselves.
And the Ozone layer again, potentially.
https://www.science.org/content/article/burned-satellites-are-polluting-atmosphere
Yay... Didn't know that
Yes, but collisions can always accelerate parts and new debris, bringing them to a higher orbit.
But a more eccentric one, no collision is going to waive away orbital mechanics.
Starlink is space junk to start with.
It's hard to say that unequivocally; I have family members who's internet options are HughesNet, where they get data caps and speeds approaching a whopping 1mbps on a good day, 5g coverage that hardly works, or Starlink. Starlink has worked for them leeeaaaguesss better than any other option they have.
Doesn't change the issues with the company or Elon, though. It just sucks that they are the only currently viable solution.
The actual name of this phenomenon is "the Kepler effect"
Its where the decades of space junk, grow to such a degree that they keep hitting other satellites and becomes the equivalent of a pinball machine with other satellites.
Its a big issue many have tried to solve
Ok hear me out... MAGNETS
Hundreds of em all in a big ball. Tie it to a counterweight and then spin that fucker through lower orbit like a skip-it and soak up all the debris!
Nothing could possibly go wrong.
It's Kessler Syndrome, in case anyone wants to read up on it.
The front fell off.
Has the war of the stars begun?
If you stroke me out, I'll become more powerful than you think, or whatever.
Pew pew motherfucker
Doesn't this happen all the time?
Only when the satellite goes out of the environment.
you mean you towed it to another environment?
sus...