For people who may not know, even a small satellite (not counting starlink’s disposable suitcase ones) usually takes 5-10 YEARS to even build at the very minimum. If we were to also include the development, testing, and launch; the time could easily double that.
So, what he’s doing is much, much worse; he’s trying to create a legacy of destruction that would take multiple generations to even get back to where we were before he got his mealy hands on everything.
Makes sense to me. Our CO detector kept going off, waking us up at night, so I took out the batteries. Problem solved!
Colorado detector.
My hope is NASA and anyone who can check will just tell them it’s done. Maybe drop some other satellite, or hide it somehow. It seems like every agency that depends on the data, including the military and amateurs who can track these things from their backyard–EVERYONE wants them to stay up there and would be willing to lie to protect them.
or make some money by selling those satellites to say ESA. They might even be able to provide some jobs.
Maintaining a satellite means expenses. If the funding is cut, the organisation and the people maintaining the satellites and the associated ground infrastructure won’t get paid for it. Most of us aren’t financially secure enough to do voluntary work as a day job.
Selling them to a different agency would mean that the buyer would also have to allocate resources to maintaining them. Not something that happens at any relevant timescales and it would be away from something else. And transferring the knowledge and skills would be a training operation in its own right.
“Oops we lost control of the satellite. It’s still sending all its high-quality data back, but the controls to de-orbit it are locked out. Damn!”
Great idea
Just bury your head in the sand. If you can’t see, hear or know about global warming and extreme weather, it won’t bother you (unless you get directly hit with a tornado or hurricane)
Like, humans knew about global warming, and even the man-made aspect, long before we even had satellites… getting rid of the satellites doesn’t even impact how much proof we have…
What it does is get rid of our ability to localize who is using the atmosphere as a sewer
That’s fair, there are other methods, but they are slower and lower “resolution”. That is probably the angle.
