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points by snowchaser 3 days ago | 0 comments
One thing that I haven’t seen represented as a risk in space based datacenters is the satellite reentry debris pollution. We are essentially allowing a constant rain of heavy metals, silicon, arsenic, and other nasty things if this idea goes to scale.

Even if all the technical issues can be worked out, which I doubt, the incentives are there to pump as many as possible up there. I don’t think we want to live with that raining down on us all.

[–] amanaplanacanal 2 days ago
How does that compare to the quantity of natural material already entering the atmosphere?
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