Eugen RochkoJan 8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/115856696065155915

Not content with littering up the Earth, the billionaires are now coming for our night sky too. I wish we could shoot all of it down.

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@Gargron that's before the junk starts raining down on our heads!!
Jan 8 at 10:37pmWeb
Show threadDerick RethansJan 9

@acm_redfox @Gargron That's already happening: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/spacex-cbc-debris-space-junk-sask-1.7231571

1-3 of these satellites re-enter everyday.

@planet4589 and @sundogplanets post about it often too.

SpaceX retrieves space junk from Sask. farmer | CBC News

Barry Sawchuk made headlines earlier this year when he said a giant piece of space debris had slammed into his field. This week, SpaceX came to his farm near Ituna, northeast of Regina, to collect the space junk.  

CBC
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@derickr @Gargron @planet4589 @sundogplanets oh, I know full well! I just meant, their issues were bad, and the space junk falling is maybe more terrible! and also, for that matter, that we're putting so much junk up there that we may not be able to fly anything through it soon!