Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoNot just incinerated, incinerate red in the upper atmosphere while directly heating it.
They burn up from friction, it’s not just the flames the whole process is heating the planet and who knows how many things it’s fucking up we haven’t noticed before.
But the most important bit is if they don’t know how to get them down, they need to stop sending them up.
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s no way burning satellites are putting enough energy into the atmosphere to heat it up. They cause other problems like ozone degradation and serious aerosol pollution.
Rockets on the other hand put a lot of greenhouse gasses high up in the atmosphere, including incredibly potent greenhouse gasses like water vapor. These launches account for a meaningful percentage of all emissions.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’re not crashing the entire rocket, just a tiny bit of it. Also, generating direct energy has never been a climate change issue, it’s the byproducts of that generating that are fucking us up.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago