Comment on Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like to hope that in a few years when we collectively decide this was a bad idea we can start hitting them with lasers and ablatively decelerating them to burn up in the atmosphere.

  If we do nothing at all they’ll burn up in 3-5 years anyway. Starlink operates in a very low orbit. Thats one of the reasons there have to be so many of them. A higher orbit (like MEO instead of LEO) would mean fewer needed satellites for the same level of coverage of the Earth.

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want to SHOOT THEM DOWN. Send a FUCKING MESSAGE.

    (I know you’re right I’m just a cranky pants)

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