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Please Do Not Let Elon Musk Destroy the Ozone Layer (www.splinter.com)

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They won't, it's just musk hate. I can't stand the idiot either, but starlink has done more for rural and underserved homes than all the telcoms have in the last 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It may be true that Starlink is a great service, but that's entirely irrelevant to the point of the article and any ozone destruction that the satellites cause.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Way more tons of meteorites burn up entering the atmosphere than the amount of shit starlink will even remotely produce.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.amp

The issue is that meteorites don't have hardly any aluminum, which is the metal of concern here. We're already seeing significant increases in the upper atmospheric concentration, and it's projected to get a lot worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Meteorites do contain aluminum. The issue is with the concentration of aluminum in the atmosphere, as well as its rate of increase. If there's an increase in the atmospheric burn up of artificial satellites accompanied by an increase in the problematic particulate in the atmosphere, then it's certainly fair to consider that the two are correlated. This is especially so if there is no increase in the burn up of objects from any natural source — eg meteors.