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Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats
(go.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Eventually, mining the LEO cloud for energy and materials will become lucrative.
Of course, there are other issues with our atmosphere going away….
Like that we are speedrunning to making Earth into Mars?
Given the speed of climate change, probably more like a speed run to our sister planet, Venus.