Good luck…we can’t even get companies to stop poisoning drinking water for entire cities…you won’t stop Elon from doing whatever he wants when he and his buddies can just buy new laws.
Ozone is something where we’ve gotten big changes like that before.
That was before Fox “News” and the GOP made cooperation, or the pretense of cooperation, a mortal sin.
How about we wait until the science is actually in before kneejerking around? We have had the science equivalent of a shower thought, actual work and analysis needs to be done before jumping to conclusions.
How about we wait until the science is actually in before sending hundreds and thousands of satellites into LEO?
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There will be a lot of work to understand the implications of these novel metals in the stratosphere,” Murphy said
I don’t see anything in that article about them being “alarmed”.
So far all the scientists appear to be saying “heads up, we need to investigate this further”, not “stop launching, this is bad”. We should listen to the scientists.
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Let’s fire some shit in the atmosphere first and then let scientists figure it out when it’s too late anyway. Absolute boomer shit
Urm i think the rocket needs to wait instead of us
or bezos, or anyone else.
Especially fucking Bezos.
Natural Gas rockets? What a small step for man, massive step back for mankind.
Methane is CH4. When it burns, it turns into Carbon (NOT carbon dioxide) and Hydrogen.
Have yet to see any of these ‘studies’ take into account and compare with natural meteorite effects, which are orders of magnitude larger than the satellites.
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I find it funny that even the problems he “invents” are not new.
Best be hoping Tesla collapses and Elon gets his with the SEC. When TSLA falls, he will lose his connections and no one will be willing to protect him, just another loser millionaire white guy and sometimes the government does go after them.
Elon will likely be fried at that point because he will have committed the worst crime in America: messing with rich people’s money.
But it’s going to make him slightly richer! How could you be so selfish?
Omg imagine elon having 100billion dollars, that would be so lit fam
Wow. I read that as ozone laser and was super confused.
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Of all the valid reasons to hate elon for, this is not one of them. The emissions from the entire world’s satellite re-entries are basically nothing on an atmospheric scale.
The article cite a peer-reviewed scientific paper which indicate satellites reentry has a significant effect.
Have you published (or know of) a better research paper that show this is incorrect?
the population of reentering satellites in 2022 caused a 29.5% increase of aluminum in the atmosphere above the natural level.
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As aluminum oxide nanoparticles may remain in the atmosphere for decades, they can cause significant ozone depletion.
There article is about a paper showing that there’s a significant increase in aluminum oxide in the atmosphere. The particulates from that are part of how the small amounts of chlorine in the atmosphere are able to destroy ozone.
How much do you think (micro)metoerites bring in daily?
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-satellite-megaconstellations-jeopardize-recovery-ozone.html
When old satellites fall into Earth’s atmosphere and burn up, they leave behind tiny particles of aluminum oxide, which eat away at Earth’s protective ozone layer. A new study finds that these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022 and will continue to accumulate as the number of low-Earth-orbit satellites skyrockets.
Those micrometeors aren’t mostly aluminium.
And how do you know it’s magnitudes higher if you haven’t seen any studies taking it into consideration?
