• mholiv@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Kessler syndrome doesn’t really apply for purely LEO satellites. They all burn up in a single digit amount of years.

    It’s not something to worry about yet.

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      5 hours ago

      On the contrary, I think it is something to avoid. Imagine letting a single person ground all space launches for 9 years. And all the pollution that adds to the atmosphere. All the junk landing on people’s farms or houses.

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        2 hours ago

        It doesn’t work that way. I dislike Elon as much as the next sane person but we don’t need to invent new reasons to dislike him on top of all of the bad reasons that exist.