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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 133 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Reusable rockets save milions

My dude still waiting for trickle down economics to kick in

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 63 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Man that is not the point here.. The point is that your uni now can send stuff to orbit when 10 years ago it was economically prohibitted. Elon can fuck off but spacex IMO is a net positive to humanity.

[–] NaoPb@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

good thing that uni projects are low orbit...

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shitescalates@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You realize that is exactly what starlink and other satellite constellations are designed to do right?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fucking whoosh on this one.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

they meant they are designed to de-orbit you dense luddite

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Yup, low earth orbit (LEO) still has some thin atmosphere that slows things down a tiny bit and makes them deorbit over time. That's why, for example, the ISS has to reboost to stay up and can chuck garbage bags overboard and not really worry about them. The deorbit time depends on a lot of factors including the mass and surface area. Starlink sats are supposed to passively deorbit in about 5 years.

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