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If 1000 satellites is all it takes to "erode the atmosphere" to a point where earth is uninhabitable, we're already fucked a thousand times over.
Submitted 6 months ago by Thenews@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
If 1000 satellites is all it takes to "erode the atmosphere" to a point where earth is uninhabitable, we're already fucked a thousand times over.
That scientist must not know how much mass hits the atmosphere each day from meteors.
He doesn’t have time to read that crap. He’s too busy warning people about their microwaves!
What a load of utter horseshit
“Scientists say”
Ah, yea, Ye Olde amorphous “experts”
This sounds like a math puzzle. How many satellites of X mass must impact the atmosphere and Y angle and Z velocity to destroy 1 earth atmosphere?
What in the Flat Earth Magic Healing Crystals Illuminati kind of article is this?
rdyoung@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m going to call bullshit on that premise.
admiralpatrick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve seen this site get spammed in the past, but it’s been a few months. Guess they’re at it again.
That whole site is an unholy mixture of religion, conspiracy, and Elon Musk. It’s bonkers.
Basically if you see tiblur [dot] com, you can pretty much just report it as spam.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I originally saw a story about it that made its way to The Guardian’s opinion section that had mostly turned into some sort of rant about wealth.
I pulled up a more astronomy-based source, submitted that instead, and commenters n Lemmy went through and decided that the original paper was basically horseshit. Let me link to my submission, just a sec.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I’ll also add that while I was kind of irritated constantly listening to people constantly praise and laud Musk back when he was saying progressive things, now that he’s saying conservative things, listening to people constantly portray him as Hitler reborn is getting even-more-obnoxious than when he was constantly being cheered. I’d kind of like to stop hearing about him so much. He really does not matter to anywhere approaching the degree of news coverage he gets.
metaStatic@kbin.social 6 months ago
I didn't and I'm still dumber for having read the headline
Thenews@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The article sourced the daily mail, a NASA scientist, as well as Gizmodo which are some of the best sources one can find. Satellitemap.space sources directly from Space-track.org which defense contractors report to.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You say that like it’s a positive…
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 6 months ago
Ex-NASA scientist, and the article goes on to claim that gigahertz frequencies (you know, WiFi, 4g, etc) may cause health risks.
I know the musk circlejerk is pretty big around here, but come on.
forrgott@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Umm, so do you realize how badly you just destroyed any shred of credibility you had left?
Thank you for identifying a source of disinformation, though; I’m adding it to my block list.