No one is talking about this. ELON BTFO
Oh trust me, plenty of the discussion sites know that Starlink has chosen a 5 year orbit and that these satellites have very, very limited lifespans.
You just get downvoted and harassed by pro-Elon simps whenever you bring it up on Reddit or other webpages. So it gets annoying to remind people that we knew this shit like 5 years ago.
This argument is weird. Everyone, including Starlink knew this was inevitable. It’s not a surprise, it’s not concerning, it’s just a regular old fact. Like the mpg of a vehicle, or the suggested time between oil changes.
It is a surprise and concerning to me. It is so wasteful and polluting. I can’t be the only one who feels like this?
These aren’t gigantic things spreading litter everywhere, the pollution concern is minimal as they would have an entry trajectory that causes them to burn up on re-entry.
Wasteful is debatable. I’m not familiar enough with the satellites themselves to say what resources are truly being lost. But if we are being honest, there’s likely more resources lost to improperly sorted trash in a single day, than years worth of these satellites burning up.
As to why, I believe it’s a side effect of aiming for low latency in the connections. Internet becomes more and more frustrating to use the higher the latency. And when people are paying over $100 a month, they aren’t going to be satisfied with high latency connections.
Actually the only way this is news is if you hate Elon, so none of them would care, unlike your strawman. It is annoying that you inserted a non-existent position however.
It was quiet because you can’t hear satellites scream in space.
I have a simple rule. I see Elon, I downvote. If we all did this we wouldn’t have to keep reading about the guy.
