this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
1195 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

66353 readers
4326 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
1195
A European Starlink rival’s shares skyrocketed 390% in a week — here’s why (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
164 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People neglect that problem. There is so much garbage flying out there at such high speeds that unless something is done, we will never be able to have functional satellites or space launches again.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elon's StarLink WILL accelerate the Kessler syndrome, also reminder that the Nazi literally put a tesla-sized space-junk in space

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I actually remember that. When I saw the car in space I thought it was a reference to the 1980 movie Heavy Metal. This was when I first learned about Elon.