cool that in 2023 we have the technology for me to pull out my phone and point it up at the night sky and see labels for all the wonderful celestial objects out there right now such as STARLINK-3716, STARLINK-8755, STARLINK-1644, STARLINK-5244, STARLINK-6152, STARLINK-7361, STARLINK-1672, STARLINK-1739, STARLINK-5123, STARLINK-6321, STARLINK-7551, STARLINK-1540, STARLINK-1527, STARLINK-8223, STARLINK-2311, STARLINK-3080, STARLINK-3130, STARLINK-6581, STARLINK-8580, STARLINK-7001, STARLINK-5150,
@jk On the plus side, with the ultra low orbit that they need to get halfway decent latency, atmospheric drag causes them to get pulled into the Earth's atmosphere and burn up within 5 years or so. Will burning up thousands of satellites in the atmosphere yearly cause any sort of problems? Don't worry about it.
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The extra, high-altitude particles will create water vapor droplet nuclei that will increase reflection of sunlight back into space, so it's going to fight #GlobalWarming! So... winning? /s