Bad news for Starlink: Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking
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The thermosphere usually drags space junk to its doom. As it thins, ruined orbits are a possibility
  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Eventually, mining the LEO cloud for energy and materials will become lucrative.

    Of course, there are other issues with our atmosphere going away….

    • seang96A
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      1 day ago

      Like that we are speedrunning to making Earth into Mars?

      • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        Given the speed of climate change, probably more like a speed run to our sister planet, Venus.