Should an earth-shrouding network of low orbit satellites be something that can be privately owned? How many people would be as blithe about the sky & light pollution if it were owned by IDK antifa or Iran or whatever seems scary to you?
I feel like we failed to have a required conversation. The sky belongs to everyone. No one asked me if I wanted this, no one asked you.
Speaking of moving fast, breaking things … how hard would it be to shoot them down? If it is illegal to do so, why?
@futurebird The good news is that they can't stay up there for particularly long. They're up around 600km, I think, which is somewhere in the "five years or so" part of the curve for orbital lifespan. We could stop him putting any more up today, and most of them would be evaporated on re-entry before the 2028 election is decided.
EDIT: on review, it seems there's a possible order-of-magnitude mess going on with this claim, and it could be multiple decades. And there's also a large amount of "needs to be actively de-orbited" situations in the middle of all that, so you know, feel free to keep being furious!
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