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Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.

Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.

SpaceX is truly awful.

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Kajetan Hundhammer Mar 15

@sundogplanets
Already done:
https://magazin.tu-braunschweig.de/en/m-post/burned-up-satellite-debris-could-deplete-ozone-layer/

Burned-up satellite debris could deplete ozone layer - TU Braunschweig | Blogs

It's like a new space race: in order to connect the world with faster internet, more and more companies are planning to launch numerous satellites into

TU Braunschweig | Blogs

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@hundhamm @sundogplanets The WWW model is silly. I don't need 25ms access except during occasional calls, which can be handled terrestrially.

Further, I have storage and RAM. Realtime terrestrial broadcast was fine but if you're doing digital data from space "it might as well come from the moon," while cheeky, doesn't seem to be a problem.

In other words, it's ok if it takes seconds for my netflix video to start. Maybe even minutes if my expectations / cost were set that way.