this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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Screenshot of social media post. Reads, "Everyone was saying that the May geomag activity had no impact on the satellites. Of course we knew this was wrong. Over one hundred sats re-entered during this period and now a paper is showing that thousands of Starlinks had to move. Holy fuck. Imagine if those thousands had to re-enter. This. Is. Insane. We. Must. Stop. Launching. Shit. NOW. https://spaceweather.com"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Agreed. This would be in line with the many meteor showers we have... which arguably could contain more "unknown" substances than what we mined out of our own crust.

This feels a bit more like a bit of fear mongering than actual reporting / science.

There are many reasons to be concerned with what we have in orbit... this isn't one of them.