China builds world’s first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire a 60-second burst

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml · 6 days ago

China builds world’s first 20GW microwave weapon that can fire a 60-second burst

pineapple@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago

There is an issue with that, if the starlink saterlites were destroyed they would no longer be able to make avoidance menovers. This could very quickly lead to a cascade of massive crashes that pretty much means we will never be able to leave the earth for a long time.

QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml · 5 days ago

Not true. Starlink are in a very low orbit and regularly (1 or 2 a day) will simply burn up themselves as they fall out of orbit.

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · edit-2 5 days ago

Which is also fucking horrible. Yeah just further pollute the atmosphere with vaporized satellites why don’t you. Hope that Fortnite battle was worth it.

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml · 4 days ago

A cascade of satellite collisions is called Kessler syndrome and the risk of it happening is rapidly increasing due to megaconstellations like Starlink:

Here we propose a new metric, the CRASH Clock, that measures such stress in terms of the timescale for a possible catastrophic collision to occur if there are no satellite manoeuvres or there is a severe loss in situational awareness. Our calculations show the CRASH Clock is currently 5.5 days, which suggests there is limited time to recover from a wide-spread disruptive event, such as a solar storm. This is in stark contrast to the pre-megaconstellation era: in 2018, the CRASH Clock was 164 days.

Kessler syndrome could be a solution to the Fermi paradox.