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by BugWatch 1678 days ago
Please don't support this Kessler-effect-inducing and astronomy-ruining nightmare. The latter is already happening, while the former might already be in its infancy.

This "space littering" has got to stop, if not outwardly globally banned, until such time as appropriate clean up techniques are developed, tested, and deployed.

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All Starlink satellites have relatively short life spans, after which they safely deorbit. Even if something were to go wrong they are in a low enough orbit where it will deorbit itself within months. Not exactly Kessler effect inducing.