Important and scary new paper on satellite megaconstellations: we may be creating a conductive band of plasma dust around the earth arxiv.org/abs/2312.09329

This sounds like the kind of thing the Enterprise crew would have to violate the Prime Directive to stop.

Low earth orbit janitor is gonna be the hot new job of 2037

Wouldn't it be cool too have our own plasma ring?

For us laypeople, can you explain the impact of “perturbation of the magnetosphere?”

I am trying to switch completely to bluesky, but I just tweeted this on X also.. multiple likes, reposts and comments within the hour .. here on bluesky, zilch

Is this bad?

So are we going to be ok? Is this a new serious risk or like a thing to look out for if you’re piloting a spaceship?