• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    The Kessler syndrome was a proposed scenario, not a scientific study. A hypothetical.

    This article is about countering Starlink. Starlink satellites are in such low orbit, they de-orbit by themselves and fall back and burn up in the atmosphere very quickly if they don’t correct their orbit regularly.

    • deltapi@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      And the (heavily editorialized) news headline was to do it explosively. Not sure where you and I are disconnecting here.