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• idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • idiomaddict@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨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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      • Skasi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is this similar to the ozone depletion and ozone holes that were always a big deal in the early 2000s and had lead to bans of chlorofluorocarbons eg in refrigerants and other products, or is this an entirely different topic?

        To me it sounds similar so I wonder why the danger of Earth losing its atmosphere “very quickly” hadn’t caused panic back then, it was only things like “stay inside so you don’t get sunburns”. Though the atmosphere disappearing would be a way bigger deal.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah it could leak out into space.

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