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• Skasi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  will destroy the ozone layer, without which the earth will lose its atmosphere relatively quickly.

  What?

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  • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The aluminum and other metals in the space crafts bond with the ozone, which could fuck with our magnetosphere. It turns out it’s mostly from satellites burning up on reentry, which makes way more sense though.

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    • Skasi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And a messed up ozone layer means the atmosphere will… disappear?

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      • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If the ozone layer fills with metallic alloys, it fucks with the magnetosphere, potentially to the point that the magnetosphere no longer protects us from solar winds, and that would lose us the atmosphere.

        It also might not be that serious, but there’s no way to know until there’s a problem. Companies are rapidly increasing the number of artificial satellites in our orbit without any consideration to the potential consequences though.

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah it could leak out into space.

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