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keccers
@keccers.eth
You aren’t allowed to attempt to understand the effects of space junk or satellites in volume, or else they screech and call you a loser and a decel. I wouldn’t talk about this on X but here where it’s safer I can admit I do find it fascinating to learn about what we know of the second order effects of space progress One of the most interesting effects that’s posited is magnetic field weakening. https://www.space.com/rocket-launches-satellite-reentries-air-pollution-concerns
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keccers
@keccers.eth
As solar maximum has continued, weakening of the magnetic field has been a huge topic for the more conspiracy theory minded among us. They believe it is a huge emergency we aren’t talking about
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Stuart
@olystuart
Interesting, I've heard of Kessler syndrome risk but not that one. I had assumed the material would de-orbit and drift downwards rather than accumulate it it makes sense. One more reason SpaceX reusability is important.
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Royal
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From the paper: > Therefore, perturbation of the magnetosphere from conductive satellites and their plasma dust layer should be expected and should be a field of intensive research. Human activity is not only impacting the atmosphere, it is clearly impacting the ionosphere. It's just a call for more research. Definitely something that we should do as space becomes more and more important to everyday life but its far from hockey stick graph doomerism https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329
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Henry 🧾
@hengar.eth
Wouldn't it be ironic if space progress renders us unable to spend large amounts of time outside on our current planet due to increased harmful radiation
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