• Zron@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is false advertising.

    Starlink was the first company and product designed to intentionally increase space junk.

    Although not needing to provide and internet connection does mean FragSat is a cheaper and more superior product.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    To be fair, something like this bud scaled up would be the only realistic way to try and fight off a hypothetical extraterrestrial invasion. Once I saw it suggested we could mass-deploy Thunder Wells to fill an orbital window with a cloud of giant steel shrapnel.

    A Thunder Well is literally a bore hole with a nuke in it, and a huge steel plate on top. It was done originally as and experiment and they never did find that fucking plate; it might have been vaporized, but that’s nothing a little redesign couldn’t fix.

    Wikipedia article