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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 hours ago

We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 19 hours ago
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The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
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    You have no idea how much I raged when I learned how much those stupid fucking starlink satellites will do to the ozone I even remember asking myself if polluting LEO with hundreds of satellites made of aluminium would have an effect of the ozone layer turns out a huge one

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      Link?

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        https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280

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    And railroads!

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      And interstate bus companies!

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      And Amazon!

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        And healthcare!

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          And my axe!

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      Didn’t they already try with Conrail?

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