• QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml
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    18 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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      18 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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        18 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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            13 days ago

            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.