:melon-musk:
:wojak-nooo: NOOO STUPID CHINESE COMMIE SPACE STATION GET OUT OF THE WAY OF MUSK'S EPIC SATELLITES
That's basically what the oh so enlightened comments on there said.
KESSLER SYNDROME LETS GOOOOOOO :lets-fucking-go:
STARSHIP GETTING SHREDDED BY ADVERTISEMENT SATELLITES
As from 19 April 2020, the Starlink-1095 satellite had been traveling stably in orbit at an average altitude of around 555 km. Between 16 May and 24 June 2021, the Starlink-1095 satellite manoeuvred continuously to an orbit of around 382 km, and then stayed in that orbit.
Holy fuck, going from r = 555 to r = 382 is more than a 30% decrease in altitude. No fucking wonder astronauts have a hard time figuring out where these little shits are going. Even though it took a month and a half, that’s a huge change in range of motion (and speed too of course)
Are other space objects generally more “calm”, or is space gonna be a logistical nightmare for the foreseeable future? Cause here’s the thing about traveling in a gigantic circle with a bunch of other stuff, you gotta be lucky every time, just once won’t cut it!
That's an extremely optimistic outlook where we can still launch shit. The SDF would just have to sit back and wait in our world.
Is all that space trash going up there really of benefit to anyone besides :melon-musk: and speculators? What is the benefit of Starlink besides expanding the :melon-musk: brand and demonstrating how callous and anti-science he really is when he blots out the sky and makes it impossible for astronomers to do their jobs?
Yes, yes, I know. "This will just encourage humans to become an interplanetary species that much sooner! Teehee" :so-true:
One thing I've heard starlink proponents say that is truly perverse is that "starlink will allow people in China and North Korea access to freedom". Besides the obvious issues with this I don't think this would even "work" though.
Edit: I notice in the twitter comments someone made this argument, that this is a malicious complaint by the Chinese gov in order to destroy opposition to it's firewall.
"access to freedom" is as :brainworms: as "the singularity will end poverty forever."
Will it now? With the tech owned and controlled by :porky-happy: ?
Won't Musk consider the Chinese space program a competitor?
Accidentally destroying the Chinese space station with a satellite would be good for him. He has zero incentive to change anything to avoid it, he has a lot of reasons to cause such an ""accident"".
Assuming China doesn't retaliate, locking anything related to Musk out of materials markets and the like.
Given how much Tesla is making in China right now, Musk getting shut out of China would be a pretty big deal.
Tesla is I think still #1 for electric car sales in China right now, but other companies are catching up very quickly. BYD is the most likely contender for the top spot, imo, and they've recently started expanding internationally, including a factory in the US.
They should install a module that zaps the ones coming too close. Goddamn Elon.
If anyone ever let's me lead a country one of my crank policies is to figure out how and then knock all of starlink's satellites out of the fucking sky.
