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Old 05-02-2022, 09:08 AM
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Fight against space pollution

Will it do any good
I don't fancy their chances.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60262100
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Old 05-02-2022, 10:56 AM
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Will it do any good
I don't fancy their chances.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60262100
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Neither do I, sadly, "voluntary" usually means it will likely be largely ineffective.

Yet another natural environment destined to be significantly tarnished by humans, not to mention made dangerous for us...we just don't seem to learn

Elon's recent absurd flipant dismissal, that low Earth orbit is a big space and it is no different to adding a few thousand more cars on the Earth, is alarming and doesn't bode well for any real mitigation solutions....for starters, not many cars travel at 8km/sec

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Old 05-02-2022, 12:44 PM
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I read that this morning.

I think it will require perserverence and a few letters to one's MP to raise awareness and apply pressure to SpaceX et al to reduce/eliminate reflections. At least now there is a coherent source of information that we can quote - it's a start.
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Old 05-02-2022, 02:13 PM
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Neither do I, sadly, "voluntary" usually means it will likely be largely ineffective.

Yet another natural environment destined to be significantly tarnished by humans, not to mention made dangerous for us...we just don't seem to learn

Elon's recent absurd flipant dismissal, that low Earth orbit is a big space and it is no different to adding a few thousand more cars on the Earth, is alarming and doesn't bode well for any real mitigation solutions....for starters, not many cars travel at 8km/sec

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True Mike.
More of Musk's Space Junk which he doesn't give
Fig about.
https://scitechdaily.com/incoming-sp...with-the-moon/
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Remember this is only Elon’s lot at the moment,Read somewhere the other day China and other nations will want there own networks.
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Old 06-02-2022, 03:22 PM
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Remember this is only Elon’s lot at the moment,Read somewhere the other day China and other nations will want there own networks.
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Two broadband projects - US entrepreneur Elon Musk's Starlink network and the UK-headquartered OneWeb initiative - are leading the new wave of constellations, and have between them launched over 2,000 satellites, but both have plans for many, many more.

As do other companies and nations. The Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is preparing his Kuiper network. And the EU, for example, wants its own broadband network in orbit by the middle of this decade.
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I recently mentioned the main culprit in this thread several weeks ago, only to have that thread deleted in short time..............bizarre.

Apparently it was deemed political.

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