Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution::The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles

  • @aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    701 year ago

    The idea of an Asian country launching a wooden satellite sounds like a racist Simpsons joke from the 1990s. What a time to be alive.

    • @swearengen@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Reading the title I was like man the Onion is getting a little edgy until I read the source. Truth is stranger than fiction.

  • @N00dle@lemmy.world
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    381 year ago

    no living creatures to cause it to rot

    Soon termites will evolve for space environment. On a serious note this does seem cool. The amount of satellites going to burn like disposable starlink ones will be an issue. This prototype is small, but this would be good for cubesats.

  • Ghostalmedia
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    281 year ago

    On this episode of Gilligan’s Island, the professor makes a satellite.

      • bean
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        81 year ago

        Launched with a comical slingshot made from two palm trees roughly shaping a V form.

  • veee
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    171 year ago

    Handcrafted artisan satellites? Yes, please!

  • @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    I didn’t quite imagine Japanese to be the Wookies of our world, but the surprise is welcome.

    EDIT: Oh, but then Corellians made lots of wooden stuff too.

  • @cebef@futurology.today
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    61 year ago

    Based japan progressing space exploration. Meanwhile the west will start debates on which pronouns to assign to satellites in the near future.