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Prof. Sam Lawler

Really great (absolutely terrifying) research by plasma physicist @carlysagan is being highlighted today on spaceweather.com/archive.php?v

Is there *anything* that tens of thousands of disposable satellites won't completely fuck up?

Satellite companies need to stop launching until they fund research on the upper atmosphere and magnetosphere(!) and show their plans are safe (which...is probably impossible since they aren't safe).

2 February at 21:31 | Open on mastodon.social
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SellaTheChemist

@sundogplanets @carlysagan It’s ironic that the Van Allen belts were discovered in IGY just as the satellite era started. we’ve deorbited a lot of stuff over the last 60 years. Is there any evidence for changes in charged particles over that time?

2 February at 21:54 | Open on mastodon.social
Ritz-Menardi

@sundogplanets @carlysagan

the image they posted is alarming. in reality there is much more space between each satellite, enough to have such a minor impact on magnetic fields. If anything It'd push CMEs and other electro-magnetic phenomenon away from earth, as our gravitational surface is now wider.

[is not a physicist, nor an expert of any kind]

2 February at 22:08 | Open on tech.lgbt
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