Starlink burns multiple retired satellites daily from its over 10,000-strong constellation

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    Not just incinerated, incinerate red in the upper atmosphere while directly heating it.

    They burn up from friction, it’s not just the flames the whole process is heating the planet and who knows how many things it’s fucking up we haven’t noticed before.

    But the most important bit is if they don’t know how to get them down, they need to stop sending them up. It’s not rocket appliances

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      There’s no way burning satellites are putting enough energy into the atmosphere to heat it up. They cause other problems like ozone degradation and serious aerosol pollution.

      Rockets on the other hand put a lot of greenhouse gasses high up in the atmosphere, including incredibly potent greenhouse gasses like water vapor. These launches account for a meaningful percentage of all emissions.

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          You’re not crashing the entire rocket, just a tiny bit of it. Also, generating direct energy has never been a climate change issue, it’s the byproducts of that generating that are fucking us up.

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              As I said, only the energy of the satellite, not the entire rocket, which is a miniscule fraction of the energy the launch used.

              Also pointing out that it really doesn’t matter, in terms of energy, potential or otherwise. It’s only the physical byproducts that can have any major impact.