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The US is more reliant on satellite technology for war than any other country. Not only will this make it difficult, if not impossible, to launch anything for generations, it will interfere with our military's use of satellite communications with a layer of reflective trash encircling the planet.

Not counting property damage and dead people on the ground from launch debris crashing back to earth across the globe.

Not counting the same from larger pieces of space trash de-orbiting when the breakup begins.

Read this. Elon Musk is actively destroying our country with the blessing of the Russian-controlled Republican party and its gangster god.

Democrats are playing gotcha games with actual, living and breathing, domestic enemies of the Constitution.

There are no patriots in uniform with bars on their chests in this corporation of would-be slave owners masquerading as a country. But there sure are a lot of angry people with guns. The enraged voters I saw in videos of town hall meetings displayed more courage to speak truth to power than any general or admiral with the ability to stop this in an instant has once displayed in this crisis.

Pick the goddamned instant and make it snappy, or there won't be allies left to help. There will be fascists barking orders dictated by the Kremlin, as relayed through its American stooges.

mastodon.social/@sundogplanets

MastodonProf. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social)Content warning: satellite doom post
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🎙️ #Kessler über Jens Castrop: „Ich glaube, dass Jens mit dem Wechsel nach Nürnberg genau das erreicht hat, was er sich erhofft hat. Er ist auf seine Spielzeit gekommen, die er damals bei uns nicht bekommen hat und hat eine gute Entwicklung genommen.“

Clutter in space presents an imminent threat to human activity at or above the #Kármán #line,
the altitude at which conventional aircraft can no longer fly
—about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface.

As more objects are launched into orbit, the possibility of #catastrophic #collisions increases.

More frequent collisions increase the volume of debris, thereby raising the odds of another collision.

Like a traffic jam, eventually the area becomes so congested that nothing can move safely.

The minimum speeds necessary to achieve orbit are very high,
thus everything up there moves extremely fast.

Basic physics teaches that the faster an object moves, the higher energy it carries into an impact scenario.

For this reason, even tiny morsels pack a devastating punch.

For example:
An object 10 cm wide (3.9 inches) packs the same force as 7 kg (15.4 lbs.) of TNT.
With limited ability to conduct repairs and collect debris,
the problem worsens with each occurrence.

Decades ago, a NASA physicist calculated how this situation can eventually devolve into disaster.

He determined that putting low earth orbit (where most human-made objects reside) into such a state of chaos will lead to space travel
—manned or unmanned
—eventually becoming impossible.

This principle is now called the #Kessler #Syndrome.

robertvanwey.substack.com/p/th

Au travers de l'élection de Donald #Trump, le gagnant est Elon #Musk.

• Continuons à donner à manger à l'extrême droite avec 𝕏.

• Laissons la follie spatiale d'Elon Musk grandir en confiant les contrats de la #NASA à #SpaceX.

• Et avec #Starlink qui obstrue de plus en plus les observations spatiales depuis le sol, interfère les observations météorologiques depuis l'espace et accentue le syndrome de #Kessler.

C'est un désastre #démocratique, #écologique et #social.