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> inherently their lifetimes will be measured in single digit years. But that's ok since they can be replaced so cheaply

Oh cool, let's shoot even more soon-to-obsolete pollution into the atmosphere. That's working so well on Earth. /s




1000s of satellites are irrelevant to atmospheric pollution. The numbers are so small compared to the vast size of the atmosphere it isn’t really a concern to worry about.

Atmospheric pollution from earth based sources is different because it’s something that is being done in the scale of billions of people, not 1000s, and CO2 doesn’t naturally disappear from the atmosphere over time and is growing decade after decade.


You're so confident. How adorably naive.


Do you math?

Over one hundred metric tons of space dust falls on the earth daily. Do you really think SpaceX de-orbiting a 200 Kg satellite once a day or so is going to change that significantly?


Comments like this aren't constructive.


Aren't their lifetimes so short because they will fall out of orbit? That's not really polluting orbit.




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