Prof. Sam LawlerJun 24, 2024

Worst part of updating my talk: looking up how fucking many more Starlink satellites there were than last time I gave a version of this talk. 200 more than a month ago. Fuck.

There are now 6,209 Starlinks in orbit, fully 62% of the 10,009 active satellites in orbit.

All of these "fully demisable" Starlinks are planned to burn up and deposit their metal in Earth's atmosphere. I just saw multiple 100-pound pieces of another SpaceX "fully demisable" rocket, so I'm sure it'll be just fine.

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@sundogplanets If I was sitting at the computer and not on my phone I'd be very tempted to Photoshop a version of the "This is fine" dog but instead of his house being on fire, there's giant hunks of red-hot space debris crashing through his ceiling.
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Show threadProf. Sam LawlerJun 25, 2024
@The_Tim If you make that, please send it to me :)