Beep4d ago

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

https://lemmus.org/post/21093378

Show threadDale4d ago
LEO satellites decay very quickly every one of them will burn up in the atmosphere within 10 years. They need to be replaced constantly. As soon as spacex goes out of business these will all fall out of the sky.
Show threadteyrnon4d ago
Any way to help them do that?
Show threadDale4d ago
No way that’s cheaper or easier than waiting
Show threadteyrnon4d ago
I’m wondering from a pure academic standpoint here honest. Like What about a laser?
Show threadDale4d ago
Lmao I wish. Satellites and their components have to be “hardened” to survive extreme temperatures and radiation in space. There’s probably nothing on it you could disable with any laser you could buy. Plus there’s the matter of targeting them.
Show threadOhVenus_Baby
How rare are these materials that are sending to space? Literally sending rare metals out of our planet. Even if they fall back down to earth. Is it even possible or viable money wise to recover them?
Mar 26 at 3:38amWeb
Show threadDale4d ago
Nope, not viable at all. A lot of it is straight up atomized on reentry especially for the smaller devices. Some of it is rare and some is not. The wet dream of these billionaires is they will be the first to figure out space mining and then manufacture. That’s why Elon musk has spacex and the boring company. Then raw resources like precious metals become infinite over night. Hopefully capitalism dies before that happens so we can all enjoy that.