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Hey @rohan_p is this something your magazine might run?

@sundogplanets thank you for keeping saying so. I ahve to make a concerted effort every morning to remember I'm not the crazy one.

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As a person with asthma who fondly remembers CFC inhalers, Starlink irks me.

Disabled people gave up better medication delivery for the ozone layer and Werner Von Clown gets to unilaterally decide to wreck the atmosphere. Cool. Fine. Perfect. This is fine.

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@sundogplanets would you be willing to act as an interview partner? I think it's a very interesting subject

@sundogplanets @NatureMC Thank you!

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@sundogplanets Sure. Ill write it. Headline will be:

"Starlink: From Space to Your Face"

@sundogplanets I do wonder how much research/consideration typically goes into the impact of orbital structures burning up in the atmosphere when a company or organization is designing something to be put into orbit.

@sundogplanets What are you talking about?!😁 During bombings in ground wars, there are far more pieces of metal!

@sundogplanets maybe @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is interested (Topic Environment and starlink pollution)?

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I assume you saw the article that said the US government had listened to the richest man on earth when he said cleaning up his space junk (in this case, rocket stages abandoned in decaying orbits) was too expensive and he couldn't afford it, and now the proposed regulations to make billionaires clean up after themselves has gone back to the drawing board?

@sundogplanets I am worried that at some point it could create a Kessler Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Also, those satellites are what allows Putin to help Iran target us.
Not an environmental problem, but worth mentioning.

I remember those passing scenes in Wall-E with Earth literally covered in space trash. Little me found the surface wasteland plausible but space junk—couldn't be that bad, right?