Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah and that is not how that works, that is not how physics works and that is not how anything works.

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  • SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A laser heating one side of anything enough to ablate material in space will alter it’s trajectory, it’s entirely possible that objects in low earth orbit would be forced to return to earth. That’s been proposed as a possible way to deal with all the random crap in space.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, if you take out lots of real world issues, maybe. In reality it is extremely hard for lasers to do any of that over enormous distances, especially through an atmosphere

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    • Breezy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But im sure musk went all out giving these satellites the best money can get./s

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