this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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The less can be sent into orbit, the better. We have enough trash in orbit as it is. No need to clutter it up any further.
Yeah better go back to the caves where there were no plastic, right?
Edit: I'm all for sending stuff out in space in a responsible manner, just got bored about lots of people being anti tech here. Probably answered the wrong person, sorry!
BTW isn't most stuff in low orbit falling out down in the atmosphere or is that just not enough to chean it up?
You realise that littering close orbit with more shit is just going to turn it into a whirling extraterrestrial claymore for anything trying to leave the planet.
Everything that goes up there should have a lifespan to come back down.
You realize that is exactly what starlink and other satellite constellations are designed to do right?
The fucking whoosh on this one.
they meant they are designed to de-orbit you dense luddite