Data showing it’s happening within a day.
This stuff falls back into the atmosphere and burns up quite rapidly since it’s in extremely low orbit.
ilovelemmy12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This stuff falls back into the atmosphere and burns up quite rapidly since it’s in extremely low orbit.
Data showing it’s happening within a day.
Gigan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even if 100% of the stuff burns up, it’s a lot of energy and materials that needs to be constantly replaced. Seems like a lot of maintenance to keep the array operating long-term.
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
Also vaporizing metals being added to the upper atmosphere isn’t exactly great.
Gigan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Isn’t great how? Like in a going to make global warming-worse way or going to give us cancer way?
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
[> There are several effects this could have on Earth and the atmosphere. The presence of these particles could affect how water freezes into ice in the stratosphere, and influence the size of stratospheric aerosol particles. They could also induce salt deposition on aerosol particles, and alter the stratospheric refraction of light.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Few months ago an article was published about how the rockets was warming the upper atmosphere and it was bad for it.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 11 months ago
You make a good point there for sure. The lower the orbit, the faster the return and burn up, but the lower the latency as well. That’s why usual satellite internet sucks so badly. Those satellites are in geostationary orbit and light takes 0.7 seconds to get there and back.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what scares me the most. At a certain point, we’ll just have to go “whoops, our planet has no more resources to leech”, and we’ll be permanently stuck in stone age