• kibiz0r
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    3 days ago

    Also, destroying a satellite can deal a ton of collateral damage. Starlink isn’t high enough to create a true Kessler Syndrome, but it could still cause big problems.

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      3 days ago

      Wouldn’t those problems end within a few months since it would all burn up in the atmosphere anyway.

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        3 days ago

        And during those few months, that whole band around the earth is unusable by any country. If Germany wanted to do something that would hurt Elon, they could just take over their gigafactory and sell Tesla’s with a VW logo on them or something.

        Of course that would undermine the rule of law and a bunch of other things within Germany, so it’s not exactly something that would be good in the long term.