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fromEarth911
1 day ago

We Are Doing to Low Earth Orbit What We Did to the Oceans

Satellite material burning in Earth's atmosphere introduces unprecedented levels of metals, with governance lagging behind commercial activity and environmental impact.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

There's a new space race will the billionaires win?

If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception. The ancients believed that everything revolved around Earth. In the 16th century, Copernicus and his peers overturned that view with the heliocentric model. Since then, telescopes and spacecraft have revealed just how insignificant we are. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, each star a sun
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