QinShiHuangsShlong comments on China builds world’s first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire a 60-second burst

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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not true. Starlink are in a very low orbit and regularly (1 or 2 a day) will simply burn up themselves as they fall out of orbit.

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago*

Which is also fucking horrible. Yeah just further pollute the atmosphere with vaporized satellites why don't you. Hope that Fortnite battle was worth it.

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[+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

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I always thought of de-orbiting just to burn-off as a waste, but now this.

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[+] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

The researchers suspect this would help shrink the ozone hole that forms over the South Pole every year,

Ok, so there seems to be a silver lining.
A lesser Ozone hole during a certain period.

Now just to know if the Ozone decimation is winning over this little phenomenon.
Either way, the LEO satellites seem to be to big a mess for their worth, unless you are just considering their military worth.