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One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day (earthsky.org)

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are now one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day, burning up in the atmosphere with consequences not fully understood.

Wait, what?!

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean it doesn't take an expert to understand that putting cloud of metal and rare earthes into the upper atmosphere is probably not the best of things to do

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Who knows, it may reflect some solar radiation and help with global warming.

Please let my one remaining positive brain cell have this win.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s my new ~~panic spiral~~ pet theory for the end of days. There’s a possibility that this could fuck up our magnetosphere, leading to losing our ozone layer, which would then eventually lose us our atmosphere.