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There is an issue with that, if the starlink saterlites were destroyed they would no longer be able to make avoidance menovers. This could very quickly lead to a cascade of massive crashes that pretty much means we will never be able to leave the earth for a long time.
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.
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.
Incorrect, they don't have natural de-orbit. They have to be controlled. They haven't solved natural de-orbit, and every de-orbit puts more aluminum oxide in the upper atmosphere that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.
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I always thought of de-orbiting just to burn-off as a waste, but now this.
A cascade of satellite collisions is called Kessler syndrome and the risk of it happening is rapidly increasing due to megaconstellations like Starlink:
Kessler syndrome could be a solution to the Fermi paradox.