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@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Technology@beehaw.org •
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Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

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Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats

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@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Technology@beehaw.org •
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Bad news for Starlink: Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking
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The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility
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    Yes, because the first thing I think about with a thinning atmosphere, is some megacorpo’s potential monetary losses, and not my home’s likely demise. Fuck them.

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        How will they live when the profits stop?

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