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[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh I'm actually all for this! Destroy ALL the satellites!

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is they won't clean anything up.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Clean what up? The debris that burns up in the atmosphere?

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I suggest reading the Kessler syndrome article on Wikipedia. The short of it is that not all that debris is expected to come down.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The Kessler syndrome was a proposed scenario, not a scientific study. A hypothetical.

This article is about countering Starlink. Starlink satellites are in such low orbit, they de-orbit by themselves and fall back and burn up in the atmosphere very quickly if they don't correct their orbit regularly.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

And the (heavily editorialized) news headline was to do it explosively. Not sure where you and I are disconnecting here.