• QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Not true. Starlink are in a very low orbit and regularly (1 or 2 a day) will simply burn up themselves as they fall out of orbit.

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      6 days ago

      Which is also fucking horrible. Yeah just further pollute the atmosphere with vaporized satellites why don’t you. Hope that Fortnite battle was worth it.

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      6 days ago

      Incorrect, they don’t have natural de-orbit. They have to be controlled. They haven’t solved natural de-orbit, and every de-orbit puts more aluminum oxide in the upper atmosphere that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

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        6 days ago

        that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

        🤦
        I always thought of de-orbiting just to burn-off as a waste, but now this.

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          Sorry, as there is so much easy access to worry these days, but then also don’t read this: https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html But actually, do at some point, but just store it in the same file as “things that suck that I can’t control, so I have knowledge and can learn, grow, respond, while realizing it just goes in the same pile of bad decisions people of power are doing to destroy our planet.” The knowledge is annoyingly necessary to build onto the next puzzle piece, despite the frustration. Although we kinda do have control if we just stop playing their game.

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            The researchers suspect this would help shrink the ozone hole that forms over the South Pole every year,

            Ok, so there seems to be a silver lining.
            A lesser Ozone hole during a certain period.

            Now just to know if the Ozone decimation is winning over this little phenomenon.
            Either way, the LEO satellites seem to be to big a mess for their worth, unless you are just considering their military worth.