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Half the size of a pickup truck? So like, a normal car?
More like 1/3 the size of a zambonie. Or 11/3 the size of two penguins on a foosball table.
Whats that in Rhode Islands? And how about mass, can I get that measured in bigmacs?
129 / 4.307213e+10 = 2.9949761 x 10^-9
That’s in sq ft. Rounded. Length x width of a pickup truck divided by surface area of Rhode Island as reported on Wikipedia
It’s over 9,000 bigmacs. This is what the ruling class does instead of feeding us. That’s over 9,000 bigmacs in waste. Per loss. Just flame broiling in the atmosphere instead of going to where it would help the most.
How many dachshunds is that?
Eighteen Danny DeVitos
1200 raccoon peens, Rp.
Oh thank God… We almost had to use the metric system there didn’t we?
We were within a hair’s breadth of that awful fate.
within a hair’s breadth
squints eyes
No, smaller, actually. A squint is 17.76 hair’s breadths
Are all imperial hair bigger, or only Texas ones?
121 dicks in Africa, 322 dicks in Asia.
We almost had to mention standard cars, which are also half the size.
Americans don’t drive cars, so they don’t know how big they might be.
A car?? Is that some kind of libural version of my furd f300000 king ranch pedestrian killer edition truck?
Is the measure in Imperial pick ups,
or metric pick ups?
Cochem mentioned! 😍
Yep, they are in Low Earth Orbit. A place that has a very, very small amount of air, so the satellites experience drag, lose speed, eventually the propellant tanks run dry, and they burn up in the atmosphere. The ISS experiences the same thing, which is why its altitude slowly falls, then you see a sharp increase as they push to a slightly higher orbit.
At the altitude the SpaceX satellites are at, they only passively stay up for a few years. With the onboard propulsion giving them each another few years.
How does half a pickup truck compare to a large boulder the size of a small boulder?
Please let one land on my house so I can sue SpaceX and retire early.
One fell in a farmer’s field in Saskatchewan. Dude got a hassle, some publicity, and a nominal fee of a grand or something.
edit: here’s a mastodon thread where astronomer Sam Lawler lives nearby and visits the site with media:
It wasn’t from a starlink satellite though.
which the U.S. aerospace company SpaceX later admitted was part of a cargo trunk for its Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Cool thanks!
A grand? Then I’m keeping it. I can make more as a roadside tourist attraction. Or maybe I sell it to the Chinese or Bezos or something. You want your toy back, Musk? Pay up, you cheap bastard!
“act of God”, legalese for “fuck you”.
Complaining about Kressler Syndrome
Complaining about Starlink
Pick one, asshole. As shitty as Musk is, Starlink is in too low of an orbit to cause Kressler Syndrome
The only worry about low earth orbit is something survives reentry enough to become a bomb. these are enough to destroy a house if that happens - my undertanding is this can’t happen but if they did
Starlink satellites aren’t large enough to survive the heat of reentry. A more likely concern is the various materials vaporizing and dispersing into the atmosphere, as was mentioned in the article.
That being said, calling them “heavy metals” like the interviewee did is rather dubious. We’re not talking about lead, as what most readers imagine when they hear that term. It’s mainly aluminum and copper. The person interviewed is picking their words to overexaggerate their claims
Donnie Darko but it’s Musk’s space junk instead of a jet engine.
Welp, it’s been fun. Time to IPO and unload all the liabilities onto the public.
Half the size of a pickup truck… a Mazda compact, or a jacked up GMC Hemi half ton?
Even just saying Ford F150 gives a lot of leeway.
OK what about a ford ranger then
How many bananas is that?
DDG/Lucille Bluth says about 40,000-50,000 bananas.
always $ in the banana stand
Where I live, we have pickup trucks half the size of pickup trucks.
There could be cubes the size of gorillas.
Yeah that’s what happens to absolutely everything in Low Earth Orbit in just a few years. Well, unless you keep pushing them back up like we do to the International Space Station.
These satellites are doing exactly what they’re intended to do. These are actually pretty small satellites overall, there are a lot up there quite a bit larger that deorbit and burn up on re-entry just fine as well.
That’s part of the reason things are sent to LEO specifically, because their orbits naturally degrade and they naturally deorbit themselves without needing any assistance or fuel. It also means if a satellite in LEO fails quicker than planned, is put in an incorrect orbit due to a launch issue, or just failed prematurely, it will fail-safe and deorbit without any assistance.
return to sender
preferably on his head
That would be so hilarious. People would be drinking beer and laughing at the story 100 years later.
Privatizing space sure did make things more efficient, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
