Comment Re:15k satellites + starlink (Score 1) 29
What are the environmental costs of vaporizing satellites and other components in the atmosphere? The main plan seems to be to let them deorbit or encourage that somehow. Or blast them with lasers. What's that do to the ozone layer? Where's the toxic pollutants go?
What are the environmental costs of 48.5 tons of meteoritic material entering the atmosphere every day? What does that do to the ozone layer? Where do the toxic pollutants go?