A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly"
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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly" - Lemmy.World
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The more satellites are up there, the higher the chance one is obliterated by space junk or meteorites. The more obliterated satellites, the more space junk.
It’s going to be a massacre.
Good. Let the motherfuckers burn. There is no benefit to working people to these satellites. I hope a cascade of space junk takes out every single one of these low orbit bullshit nazi internet satellites.
Problem is that this space junk hits normal satellites, too.
Okay but what are these normal satellites doing for us? Spying on foreigners so we can kill them for Israel? Or what? Navigation on our stupid fucking cars we shouldn’t even be driving? Fuck them all burn them all down.
You don’t like weather forecasts? Or analyzing ground quality and fertility? Not all satellites are evil.
That can be done from the ground, and they are cancelling all of that shit as we speak, in the US, and your shit western sycophant governments will be following suit unless you man up and take them.
It’s not easier to that on the ground. Those analyses are done by large radars slapped on top of satellites. They can scan huge tracts of land in very quickly with very high precision. More precise than airborne systems. They work regardless of the weather. The same satellites can keep track of river flows, forest growths, volcanic and tectonic activity, floods, structures like bridges, whole bunch of things. They can be used for extremely accurate mapping. They are insanely useful tools.