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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly"
(www.scientificamerican.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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Problem is that this space junk hits normal satellites, too.
Okay but what are these normal satellites doing for us? Spying on foreigners so we can kill them for Israel? Or what? Navigation on our stupid fucking cars we shouldn't even be driving? Fuck them all burn them all down.
You don't like weather forecasts? Or analyzing ground quality and fertility? Not all satellites are evil.
That can be done from the ground, and they are cancelling all of that shit as we speak, in the US, and your shit western sycophant governments will be following suit.
Analyzing ground and fertility is a new one to me. But on the ground it's easy to do that, easier. Why would we need to do that from space? That on second thought is the ~~dumbest~~ a dumb thing I've heard today that is no where near the dumbest thing I've heard, because, you know.
It's not easier to that on the ground. Those analyses are done by large radars slapped on top of satellites. They can scan huge tracts of land in very quickly with very high precision. More precise than airborne systems. They work regardless of the weather. The same satellites can keep track of river flows, forest growths, volcanic and tectonic activity, floods, structures like bridges, whole bunch of things. They can be used for extremely accurate mapping. They are insanely useful tools.
While that may be the case, what makes you think the governments will allow those good uses to continue? Have you not seen the trajectory of our governments? They will only bring us bad things. And the private sector especially so. The government, the private sector, they are the enemy. This is not 1960. This is not 1960. Shiiiiiiiite, in clay davis' voice.