IO, the Angel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agois this what it sounds like!?lemmy.blahaj.zoneimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1264arrow-down1imageis this what it sounds like!?lemmy.blahaj.zoneIO, the Angel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square29linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·17 days agoNah, don’t get too worked out over it. It can’t be economically viable either, so as soon as that company stops gifting investors out of their money, it will just disappear and the mirror will fall back into Earth.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·17 days agoI am worried about them screwing it up and having the thing explode in orbit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome Ideally the investors figure out what’s wrong before the company starts launching mirrors into orbit
minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·17 days agoIf you break a mirror satellite it’s like 10 years of bad luck for the whole planet.
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-217 days agoThat’s 6.623 × 10^13 kilometers of bad luck!
Nah, don’t get too worked out over it.
It can’t be economically viable either, so as soon as that company stops gifting investors out of their money, it will just disappear and the mirror will fall back into Earth.
I am worried about them screwing it up and having the thing explode in orbit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Ideally the investors figure out what’s wrong before the company starts launching mirrors into orbit
If you break a mirror satellite it’s like 10 years of bad luck for the whole planet.
7 light years of bad luck
That’s 6.623 × 10^13 kilometers of bad luck!