• parpol@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Literally every corner of the world has some kind of environmental issue due to the recklessness of governments and corporations.

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    1 year ago

    NGL, the number of satellites already in orbit is worrying. Even just since prepandemic, I can spot a lot more satellites than I ever could before, because of how rapidly we are adding them to orbit for things like starlink. I really really hope everyone has automatic methods for deorbiting dead satellites within a decade of expiration.

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      Starlink satellites will eventually de-orbit by themselves. The low-orbit altitude they fly in is not a completely vacuum. If they aren’t reboosted drag will slow them down enough that in about 5 years they come down and burn up in the atmosphere. We should worry more about those satellite in higher altitudes, like those TV broadcasting satellites that are in a geo synchronous orbit. Those will never come down without human intervention, but they are so far away that it’s difficult and expensive to reach them.

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      1 year ago

      starlink alone has more than doubled the number of satellites in space. like, they alone have launched more than everyone else combined until that point. it’s ridiculous.

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      1 year ago

      The lowest of Starlink supposedly won’t last 5 years in orbit without operating ion thrusters.

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    1 year ago

    Humanity is fucking disgusting.

    And not in the fun, sexy way.

    I’m sure the galactic community can’t wait for the sapient species equivalent of Pigpen to make the stage, with our pollution clouds in tow.

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      It’s not irony. This is what the program is trying to prevent: collisions from junk.