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I absolutely agree with the first half of your comments but imo Starlink is just an amazing way to make staggering amount of space junks which we already had wa
by mrjin 6y ago
I absolutely agree with the first half of your comments but imo Starlink is just an amazing way to make staggering amount of space junks which we already had way too many in the orbit.
- headmelted 6y agoAbsolutely. I’m not at all defending the extent to which they keep throwing more of those things out up there (although they at least seem to have a plan for bringing them down at the end of their life).
- dencodev 6y agoSpace junk isn't a problem at the altitude that Starlink operates at and they harmlessly fall back into the atmosphere after a given number of years. Please take the Musk-bashing astroturfing elsewhere.
- danaris 6y agoStarlink pollutes the sky, making it hard for astronomers to do their work. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/starlink-already-threatens-optical-astronomy-now-radio-astronomers-are-worried https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/starlink-already-thr...