Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by pishpash on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:52PM
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And we inhale it all. (Yes, I know it's insignificant; all things start insignificantly.)
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by profmonocle on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:06PM
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About 15,000 tonnes of material enter the Earth's atmosphere each year from meteors. I know the makeup of satellites vs. random meteors isn't exactly the same, but it's probably not concerning in terms of pollution sources, and it's really hard for me to imagine it getting there.
Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by jlmorton on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:57PM
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When you consider the century-long global effort burning 2-3 billion gallons of oil every day to raise CO2 from 320ppm to 420ppm, you get a sense of the scale involved.
Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by Retric on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:24PM
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Yea ~0.033% to 0.040% took ~879,000,000,000,000 kg of carbon with the oceans sucking up another 590 Gt, and land taking 528 Gt from 1750 to 2012. We added another 0.004% in the last 10 years.
Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by dymk on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:56PM
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Just wait until you learn just how much random space stuff enters Earth’s atmosphere in any 24 hour period
Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
by version_five on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:26PM
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Someone already mentioned burning oil, I'd like to also mention coal which makes oil look very clean by comparison. Coal is a few ppm uranium, arsenic, and other unpleasant metals (this is from memory, but it has lot of impurities). We burned literally billions of tons of it, putting thousands or tons of these metals into the atmosphere in the process.
Also, leaded gasoline