Prof. Sam LawlerMar 15

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.

meeooMar 18
Show threadWren Reilly

@sundogplanets

As a person with asthma who fondly remembers CFC inhalers, Starlink irks me.

Disabled people gave up better medication delivery for the ozone layer and Werner Von Clown gets to unilaterally decide to wreck the atmosphere. Cool. Fine. Perfect. This is fine.

Mar 16 at 9:53amWeb
Show threadOtte Homan - remember GeordieMar 16
@akareilly @sundogplanets "Werner Von Clown"! That's a good one. Need to remember that. Thank you!
Show threadЯ⊛ḶḶ model ☭Mar 16

@otte_homan @akareilly @sundogplanets

this is why i'm here