Starlink satelites are about 341 miles above earth, on average. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/starlink-everything-know-network-satellites-151511672.html
Ozone layer is 9-18 miles above earth’s surface. https://www.epa.gov/ozone-layer-protection/basic-ozone-layer-science
you remember incorrectly.
I don’t see your point.
Building fossil fuel power infrastructure does nothing to move the needle, but building renewables does.
What are you actually proposing? Because it reads as “we shouldn’t try because any benefits or impacts are long-term”
But the fun thing is that once we reach a critical point, it will go from having a positive carbon impact to a negative carbon impact. But we can never get there if we never start
It’s all about scale and infrastructure.
Theocracy
Huh. Nothing to do woth religion…
There’s plenty of infectious agents that can just lay dormant almost indefinitely.
There’s major concern about viruses coming from the melting permafrost in regions like Siberia.
If you want to hear something even more terrifying, prions can last about indefinitely. Chronic wasting disease in deer is particularly bad because a deer might die and its remains will decompose into the earth. But vegetation will later grow, and some of those prions will have contaminated the new vegetation. A new deer will get infected by eating that vegetation, even years later.
What good does that do for society?
If a cup has a few drops of water after you pour it out,
Say a drop is 0.05ml (20drop/mL is rule of thumb for chemistry). Say your glass cup holds 16oz (mine does), that’s 473mL.
(4*0.05mL / 473mL) *100 = 0.04228% of the original concentration. Now scale that volume up. That ratio is going to be much smaller, since you’re right about volume vs surface area.
5ppb is the cutoff for benzene in stunning water in Oregon apparently. EPA says 5ug/L.
5ppb is apparently 0.0000005%. That’s about 84,000x higher than the cutoff for that one potential contaminant.
Given how small the minimum acceptable level is for many chemicals in gasoline or fuel… Yeah I bet it would increase cancer rates in a statistically significant way.
That would be to be a huge balloon to do anything appreciable, both to your enemy and also the stockpile of waste you have
Right that’s just the stock of old/obsolete/close-to-expiring munitions and equipment we’re willing to spare.
Checksums, on the other hand, are designed to minimize the probability of collisions between similar inputs, without regard for collisions between very different inputs.[8] Instances where bad actors attempt to create or find hash collisions are known as collision attacks.[9]
Fix the laws?
No. It’s the GMOs who are wrong.
Both GMOs and nuclear can be used to mitigate climate change too… :(
The bigger the incentive the more money gets spent on funding the necessary R&D.
What?
Potential means voltage in the context of electricity
I can’t find a better way to describe it.
A lot of factories don’t emit chemicals into the air.
If you stood next to a factory there’s a high chance you won’t be exposed to anything nasty. Or, a lot less than the ocean spray apparently.
The companies absolutely knew about the danger without telling anyone else.
It’s like the radium girls. Or agent Orange. Or asbestos. Or lead. Or CFCs. Or PCBs.
If it weren’t the USA, it would have been the Nazis or Russians who invented it.
They burdened future generations?
This reminds me of the “Nathan for you” episode where he turns a bar into a “live theatrical performance” so patrons could smoke as a loop hole.
But honestly, the freedom of speech / claiming “art” stops applying when you’re doing something else illegal (threats of violence, slander, csam). Why would this be any different?
I bet money Russia starts getting absurdly good. And they’ll have really good info. And it will be because of starlink.