[marcosdumay]

> Apparently they don't just completely vaporize, but instead leave behind micro particles that float around for a long time.

That's not clear. There's no empirical evidence of it, and the computer models we have don't have definitive results.

Those alarms are not really proper.

[wolvoleo]

Ignoring problems until they become too big to pooh-pooh away is how we got into the climate crisis. And some countries are still pooh-poohing it away.

[bell-cot]

Ask a rocket scientist how many up-front tons of CO2 a rocket launch puts into the atmosphere, per pound of will-eventually-reenter satellite mass.

This is kinda like how it's "rational" to pooh-pooh away the possible radon emissions from your rock-hoarding obsession, when your house's floor beams are starting to make loud cracking sounds.

[inemesitaffia]

evidence based alarmism.

[wolvoleo]

Oh now even facts are alarmism. Right.. :X

[inemesitaffia]

There's no facts here.

I've actually read the paper everyone mentions